Nunavut’s future is underground, says Harper

BAKER LAKE, NUNAVUT—A gold mine on the tundra is helping Nunavut blast, haul, crush, melt and pour its way to prosperity and that is just the way Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants it to be.

The future in this long-impoverished territory is under the ground and the role he has set for his government is to help mining companies find it. The environmental consequences won’t exactly be damned, but they won’t exactly stand in the way either.

“Obviously when you dig holes here, you know, you create some environmental issues and those issues have to be addressed, but that can’t stop development any more than we would let that stop development in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver,” Harper said at the Meadowbank Mine, which is owned by Toronto-based Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd.

There are “extraordinary circumstances” in which the government has and would refuse to permit certain projects to go ahead. Under normal circumstances, when the environmental checks and balances are completed “we want to see projects occur,” Harper said.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1044347--nunavut-s-future-is-underground-says-harper?bn=1

A keystone type of statement!

Ayn Rand, Washington concensus type.

Despise him, and am heartbroken over Jack Layton's death, since he is the man who was most likely to unseat that faux-Canadian politician, besides being a personal acquaintance.

I wish the left had the money we needed to buy our politicians outright like that. It seems that conscience and far-sightedness don't trade very well either on Wall St. or Bay St.