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^^ I fully agree with the above two comments. I was recently thinking that Sio Silica still owns the rights to mine the silica sand, and no company is going to allow anything as trivial as local government rulings get in the way of eventually making some potentially big bucks.

Part of me hopes we don't see the resurgence of the PCs for a while, but as much as I think their policies and their world outlook that spawned them stinks, democracy needs an effective opposition to keep governments in line, even the ones I currently like.

I was looking at the Sio Silica websites, and they like to boast about how environmentally progressive they are. What I'd like to see is some kind of thorough media investigation into their claims and practices. Summarize the scientific reports the NDP cites, compare them to company claims, contrast the Sio Silica operation with the Hollow Water/Selkirk decision.