Great letter by Ashton Cooper of Tl’etinqox to Walt Cobb, asking Cobb to quit blaming the Chilcotin people for Prosperity Mine's demise. Good reading and great letter Ashton!
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Prosperity Mine Recent News and Notes
I thought I would run through some recent news on the Prosperity Mine just to keep myself and all of you updated. I've picked out some things I hope you find interesting.
Globe and Mail Says YES Side Manipulated Mine Poll
The Globe sponsored a web poll back in October to measure public opinion on Taseko Mines' Prosperity Mine project. I followed the poll at the time and wrote encouraging the NO side to vote. Well it turns out that some NO side keeners (the First Nations Women Advocating Responsible Mining) were actually watching the poll results as they came. Turns out the YES side managed to rack up the majority of its votes in the last few hours before the poll closed, some 3000 votes in that short time.
That was enough to create a 54% lead in the opinion poll. How did they do it?
According to Globe Communities Editor Jennifer MacMillan this sort of thing isn't uncommon. While the Globe's polling system doesn't allow you to vote more than once, enthusiastic voters can simply press the "delete cookies" button on their web browser and they system thinks they are new to town. In this way, multiple voting is easy to accomplish.
Vote YES, delete cookies. Rinse and repeat!
I suppose, to be fair, the NO side could have done the same thing, but there is nothing to indicate that happened. The Globe stresses that "the polls at globeandmail.com are meant to be entertaining for readers, rather than scientific".
Fair warning!
Globe and Mail Says YES Side Manipulated Mine PollThe Globe sponsored a web poll back in October to measure public opinion on Taseko Mines' Prosperity Mine project. I followed the poll at the time and wrote encouraging the NO side to vote. Well it turns out that some NO side keeners (the First Nations Women Advocating Responsible Mining) were actually watching the poll results as they came. Turns out the YES side managed to rack up the majority of its votes in the last few hours before the poll closed, some 3000 votes in that short time.
That was enough to create a 54% lead in the opinion poll. How did they do it?
According to Globe Communities Editor Jennifer MacMillan this sort of thing isn't uncommon. While the Globe's polling system doesn't allow you to vote more than once, enthusiastic voters can simply press the "delete cookies" button on their web browser and they system thinks they are new to town. In this way, multiple voting is easy to accomplish.
Vote YES, delete cookies. Rinse and repeat!
I suppose, to be fair, the NO side could have done the same thing, but there is nothing to indicate that happened. The Globe stresses that "the polls at globeandmail.com are meant to be entertaining for readers, rather than scientific".
Fair warning!
Friday, December 10, 2010
Sequester This!
China tries to blackmail Europe to keep paying for fake offsets. Sometimes I really wonder how any person or country can be so short-sighted and ignorant. This article is about China gaming the Clean Development Mechanism to reap huge profits with no work done. Scammers!
Amplify’d from www.ens-newswire.com
"The insistence that developed countries must continue to squander billions on fake offsets that actually increase production of greenhouse gases is irrational," said Fionnuala Walravens, with Environmental Investigation Agency.
"China is not the victim here," she said, "and it's unlikely that a world order that is responsive to climate change can be predicated on the basis of unrepentant greed."
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
Relationship between Taseko and First Nations crumbling
This is interesting: BIVInteractive.com reports that the Feds turned down Taseko Mines' Prosperity Mine project because then-minister Prentice was in bed with "aboriginals"
BIV writes that Prentice was previously minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, a position which produced “close relationship with many aboriginal communities and leaders."
Ouch.
Imagine, a federal minister and CONSERVATIVE no less turning down a mine proposal because he likes aboriginal people. Where is WikiLeaks when you need it?!
It's a conspiracy.
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Relationship between Taseko and First Nations crumbling
"Relations between Taseko Mines Ltd. (TSX:TKO) and B.C. First Nations hit rock bottom this year"... REALLY? no kidding. Who'da thunk?
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Williams Lake Tribune - Alphonse: Canada’s UN endorsement ‘long overdue’
Joe Alphonse says Canada's endorsement of UN Rights of Indigenous Peoples legislation is hopeful http://goo.gl/cV8bd
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Taseko's Prosperity Mine in the News Again
Taseko Mines' Prosperity Mine project is in the news again.
The 100 Mile Free Press reports that Donna Barnett, MLA for South Cariboo has travelled to Ottawa to speak to Federal ministers on behalf of Taseko Mines. The goal was to find out what went wrong with the Prosperity Mine proposal as submitted.
Barnett was quoted as saying that “We want to know whether there has to be a brand new proposal or if there can be amendments to the existing proposal, and that’s the big one. Taseko, in its public statement, said it was willing to look at things and make changes.”
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Squidoo Lens Earns $ for EarthJustice
I thought i would share this bit of fund-raising... it is after all just a BIT of fund-raising.
I have a Prosperity Mine Squidoo Lens that I started more than a year ago. Squidoo is a "Web 2.0" site, sort of a high-ranking site that lets you set up good-looking pages about anything you want. The site is called a "lens" and your lens comes with a high ranking in search engines because Squidoo.com itself is very highly ranked. Search engine spiders crawl the site once a day at least so updates are quickly picked up and placed on Google, Bing or Yahoo.
All lenses automatically have context sensitive advertising. So my lens about Taseko Mines always has little ads on the side relating to mining products, stocks and businesses. When you create a lens you get to choose what to do with the income from advertising. In the case of my Prosperity Mine lens I chose to contribute all the revenue to EarthJustice.
Here is a snapshot of recent advertising income:
I have a Prosperity Mine Squidoo Lens that I started more than a year ago. Squidoo is a "Web 2.0" site, sort of a high-ranking site that lets you set up good-looking pages about anything you want. The site is called a "lens" and your lens comes with a high ranking in search engines because Squidoo.com itself is very highly ranked. Search engine spiders crawl the site once a day at least so updates are quickly picked up and placed on Google, Bing or Yahoo.
All lenses automatically have context sensitive advertising. So my lens about Taseko Mines always has little ads on the side relating to mining products, stocks and businesses. When you create a lens you get to choose what to do with the income from advertising. In the case of my Prosperity Mine lens I chose to contribute all the revenue to EarthJustice.
Here is a snapshot of recent advertising income:
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| Squidoo Lens Monthly Earnings |
Alright alright, it's pennies, I just thought it was interesting that it was anything at all! You have to be up in the 1000 views per month to really see income. This squidoo lens gets about 10 visits per day from different sources. It provides a backlink to this blog and is part of the reason that this blog is ranked so high in Google for phrases like "Prosperity Mine Taseko".
Interested in promoting your cause? making sure your message and website are getting the attention they deserve? Contact me here and I will be happy to give you tips and resources.
Thanks for reading!
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