Taseko is looking to build an open pit gold-copper mine approximately 125 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake, B.C.

The previously proposed mine was approved by the B.C. government, but then rejected after a federal government environmental review in 2010. The previous plan would have drained Fish Lake and put a tailings storage facility nearby.

The nearby Tsilhqot'in First Nation Government has strongly opposed Taseko's gold and copper mine project, saying the development will kill Fish Lake, preventing access to a place of spiritual importance.

The company was ordered to rewrite the environmental impact statement earlier this year after the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency concluded a draft was riddled with gaps, deficiencies and missing information.

The revised proposal retains Fish Lake and shifts a tailings facility 2 kilometres upstream. When the pit is at its biggest, the edge would be about 500 metres from Fish Lake.

Ottawa announced that the revised mine plan would be assessed by a federal review panel in November 2011. The panel issued a call for submissions for public comments, and applications for interested party status during the hearings on September 14, 2012. Comments and application are due by September 28, 2012. A date for the hearings has not yet been set.

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