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What’s the Latest: New Brunswick strikes deal to explore recovering metals from old mine waste
New Brunswick has entered into an agreement with Regeneration Enterprises, a U.S.-based firm, to explore the recovery of valuable metals from the waste of the Nigadoo mine near Bathurst. This mine, which has been closed for nearly 50 years, presents a liability of $35 million for the province.
Regeneration Enterprises expects to determine the financial viability of recovering metals from the Nigadoo mine within a year. If the project proceeds, processing could begin in two to three years, pending necessary approvals.
New Brunswick’s Natural Resources Minister John Herron emphasised the dual opportunity of unlocking mineral wealth and achieving environmental remediation at the old Nigadoo mine. Regeneration Enterprises, collaborating with Pabineau First Nation, anticipates determining the project’s financial viability within a year, with potential processing commencing in two to three years following approvals.
What remains unclear — It is uncertain what environmental safeguards will be implemented to address potential risks from disturbing settled heavy metals during the mining process.
New Brunswick agrees to explore recovery of metals from old mine waste
New Brunswick has entered into an agreement with Regeneration Enterprises to explore the potential recovery of valuable metals from decades-old mine waste at the defunct Nigadoo mine near Bathurst. The mine, which ceased operations nearly 50 years ago, previously produced copper, lead, zinc, and silver. The provincial government believes that valuable metals may still be present in the remaining waste.
Michael McPhie, managing director of Regeneration Enterprises, stated, “The recovery of the metals, the critical minerals, whatever they might be, are then used to fund the restoration, as opposed to the public having to pay for it.” The project could potentially remove a $35 million liability from the province’s balance sheet. McPhie highlighted the plan’s dual benefits: cleaning up the site and providing a net benefit to the residents of New Brunswick.
Natural Resources Minister John Herron noted the opportunity to “unlock mineral wealth from a tailings facility” while ensuring proper environmental remediation. Herron confirmed that no provincial funding is currently allocated for exploration, although future government support remains a possibility.
Beverly Gingras, executive director of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, expressed cautious optimism about the initiative. “If the result of doing this testing and doing the mining to get the minerals out of the tailings — if the end result is that the mine will be rehabilitated, I think that’s a good thing,” she said, although she urged consideration of potential environmental risks.
Regeneration Enterprises, in collaboration with Pabineau First Nation, anticipates determining the project’s financial viability within a year. Should the project proceed and receive necessary approvals, processing operations could commence in the next two to three years.
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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8:17 am
Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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