In his recent letter to the editor, Perry Grunenberg asks us to base our opinion of the proposed Ajax mine on science, rather than on rhetoric. Yet, his rhetoric argues for the public to stand by idly while it waits for 18,000 pages of information, which he then says the public will have neither the time to read nor the ability to understand. There are scientists, including myself, who have examined and then commented on the documentation the mine has produced to date.
It is clear the vast majority of the “information” in the application — on impacts of pollutants on the population, on possibilities of a tailings dam failing and so on — will be based on model results.
I have probably listened to close to 1,000 scientists present results of their models during my 35
Robert S. Schemenauer, Ph.D. – Kamloops This Week – December 14, 2015.
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