Taseko: Court approves judicial review of New Prosperity mines decision – Mining.com

May 12, 2015

The Federal Court has rejected an application by Taseko Mines Ltd. (TSX:TKO) to sue the federal government for rejecting its gold-copper mine in the Cariboo-Chilcotin, but will allow judicial reviews to proceed.

Taseko’s Prosperity mine – revised as New Prosperity – has been rejected twice by Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA).

Taseko has argued that the CEAA’s decision was fundamentally unfair and based on flawed assumptions. The agency based its decisions on a tailings pond design that Taseko says it was not planning to use. Rather, it was based on a design provided by Nstural Resources Canada, Taseko argues.

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