What are the environmental hazards associated with mining nickel?
Nickel mining itself poses no greater hazards than that of any other mining activity or for that matter, any industrial activity. Crowflight’s management supports sustainable mining techniques and to that end will take all necessary steps to conduct all mining activities in the context of that permitted by the law with due respect for safety and sensitivity towards the environment. The Bucko Lake Nickel Deposit has been through a lengthy permitting process with the Manitoba and Canadian governments and at this time is well advanced. In February 2007, the Company received confirmation of the province of Manitoba’s intent to permit the Bucko Lake Nickel Deposit as well as its intention to support Crowflight’s application to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) for the use of Bucko Lake, a small, shallow, headwater lake located adjacent to the Bucko Deposit, as a tailings impoundment area (TIA). This proposal has undergone review by various departments of the provincial gov
