Terrible decision and terrible timing.  Readers should also know that Imperial Metals, the overarching mining owner, was responsible for the worst, yes the worst, environmental mining disaster in Canadian history, and it happened recently, in 2014.  That was at the Mt. Polley mine, in which a dam holding the mine's toxic tailings, including arsenic and other wonderful substances, broke, with the tailings flowing into the tailings pond which flowed into Quesnel Lake and Quesnel River, a tributary of the Fraser, the highest producing salmon spawning grounds on the west coast of North America.  Sorry that sentence is very long, but it's such an unbelievable story.  (I believe a report said that the dam was unsound, given the glacial soil underpinning the dam).  And it gets worse: Imperial Metals is a major contributor to the BC Liberals and to Christy Clark's personal top-up salary.  We need a major house cleaning in BC, I hope NDP uses this example to send a message to the ROC.