On May 5, Seabridge Gold sent a letter to the Science magazine to correct inaccurate information about the KSM project and the Canadian Environmental Assessment (EA) process that was published in opinion letter titled ‘Canada’s mines pose transboundary risks’.
Read the letter here.
Seabridge Gold’s Brent Murphy wrote a letter to Christopher Sergeant, Research Scientist, Flathead Lake Biological Station, The University of Montana and Julian D. Olden, Professor of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington correcting inaccurate information published in an opinion article titled “Mine waste dams threaten the environment, even when they don’t fail”.
Read the letter here.
Update – The application is now closed.
Seabridge Gold owns the KSM Project, a proposed gold, copper, silver and molybdenum mine, located 65 north of Stewart, BC. The KSM Project will employ approximately 1,800 people during its 5-year construction and approximately 1,040 jobs during its 52-year mine life. While construction has not yet started on the KSM Project, Seabridge Gold supports building a strong workforce in northwest BC and finds value in supporting local residents to further education and training. As a result, Seabridge Gold is implemented a bursary program to support students from northwest British Columbia (BC) access education and training.
If you are a resident of northwest BC (defined as west of Burns Lake north to the Yukon boarder), currently enrolled in studies, complete the following application for an opportunity to receive financial support towards your education. Applications will be reviewed and scored, based on the completion of the application and submission of the required documents. The winter application is applicable for students enrolled in studies for the winter semester (January -April 2020) and will be announced in March 2020.
Submission Deadline: February 21, 2020
* Applications, essay and additional attachments will only be accepted via scan and/or e-mail submitted to ksm_community@seabridgegold.net by February 21st, 2020.
* For enquiries and additional questions contact Seabridge Gold at (250) 847-4704, ksm_community@seabridgegold.net
KSM Mining ULC, subsidiary of Seabridge Gold, holds a permit License SK904033 which authorizes a tunnel right-of-way extending 23 km from the Mitchell Valley to the proposed KSM Tailings Management Facility (TMF) location. Associated with the permit is a management plan that addresses how Seabridge Gold will deal with the rocks excavated from ground along the tunnel alignment, whose mineral rights are held by parties other than Seabridge Gold.
Seabridge Gold also holds permits to initiate construction at:
Details of permits and management plan can be found here:
Seabridge Gold’s Brent Murphy wrote a letter to Cy Gonick, Publisher and Coordinating Editor of Canadian Dimension correcting inaccurate information published in an article titled “Tailings Dam Collapses in the Americas: Learned?”.
The article stated that, “a study of four new transboundary copper-gold projects in the BC-Alaska border area, commissioned by civil society organizations in March 2016, found that not one project was following the expert panel recommendations”.
Seabridge Gold’s KSM Project is one of the four new transboundary projects referred to in this study, but Seabridge is following the Panel’s recommendations.
Read the letter here.
In an August 5, 2019 Juneau Empire article titled “Murkowski, Sullivan urge action on mine cleanup”, Rob Sanderson, Jr. Vice President, Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska was quoted as saying, “the Unuk River is dying”.
On August 9, 2019, Seabridge Gold’s Brent Murphy wrote a letter to Mr. Sanderson to correct a misunderstanding that mining activity is somehow responsible for impacting the Unuk River. The letter also states that Seabridge Gold has been conducting ongoing water quality monitoring on the Unuk River at the BC/Alaska border for more than 12 years and have seen no degradation in water quality.
Read the letter here.
On July 17, 2019, Seabridge Gold’s Brent Murphy wrote a letter to Frances H. Leach, Executive Director of United Fishermen of Alaska, to correct the statements she made in an opinion article titled, “Transboundary Mining: Alaska’s senators are working hard. Now let’s lock it in” published in SitNews.
Read the letter here.
In an opinion article submitted to Anchorage Daily News titled, “Alaska is fully engaged in transboundary water, mining issues” on July 15, 2019, Alaska’s Transboundary Bilateral Working Group Members – Corri A. Feige, Doug Vincent-Lang and Jason Brune – reaffirm the joint commitment made by both Alaska and British Columbia towards the protection of transboundary water. The article goes on to state, “Years of working closely with the province have shown us that Canadian ministries are as committed to responsible development as Alaska’s departments…”. Read the article here: https://www.adn.com/opinions/2019/07/14/alaska-is-fully-engaged-in-transboundary-water-mining-issues/
The 2019 Seabridge Gold – KSM Project Fall Bursary Application
Seabridge Gold owns the KSM Project, a proposed gold, copper, silver and molybdenum mine, located 65 kilometers north of Stewart, BC. The KSM Project will employ approximately 1,800 people during its 5-year construction phase and approximately 1,040 jobs through the forecasted 52-year mine life. While construction has not yet started on the KSM Project, Seabridge Gold supports building a strong workforce in northwest BC and finds value in supporting residents to further their education and training. As a result, Seabridge Gold has implemented the 2019 bursary program to support students from northwest British Columbia (BC) access education and training.
If you are a resident of northwest BC (defined as west of Burns Lake north to the Yukon border), currently enrolled in studies, complete the following application for an opportunity to receive financial support towards your education. Applications will be reviewed and scored, based on the completion of the six sections and submission of the required documents. This is the fall round for the bursary program and is open to students enrolled in studies for the fall semester (September – December 2019) and will be announced on September 3, 2019.
Submission Deadline: August 12, 2019 Results Announced: September 3, 2019
* Applications, essay and additional attachments will only be accepted via scan and/or e-mail submitted to ksm_community@seabridgegold.net by August 12, 2019.
* For enquiries and additional questions contact Seabridge Gold at (250) 847-4704, ksm_community@seabridgegold.net
Bursary Application Form – Fall 2019
On May 8, 2019, Seabridge Gold’s Brent Murphy, sent a letter to Representative Louise Stutes and Fisheries Committee Members correcting several inaccurate facts regarding the KSM Project that were presented during the recent House Committee Hearing on Transboundary Mining. Read our letter here.
