{"id":2665,"date":"2023-03-20T08:27:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T15:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/?page_id=2665"},"modified":"2023-08-25T15:24:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:24:17","slug":"mining","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/watershed-threats\/mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Brenda Mine is located close to and above Peachland Lake, our watershed.&nbsp; The mine is a former copper and molybdenum open pit mine which began operations in 1969 and ceased operations in 1990. The site occupies a total area of approximately 1,300 hectares. The closed mine operates a treatment plant which removes molybdenum from water collected on site. Treated water is discharged into MacDonald Creek, which is a tributary of Trepanier Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mining interests and proposed explorations continue in our watershed\u2019s area.&nbsp; On April 21, 2020, the District of Peachland Council strongly opposed the mining exploration application for Tenure #1049752, \u201cNew Brenda\u201d site (tracking number 100246696).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Brenda-Mine-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Brenda-Mine-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Brenda-Mine-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Brenda-Mine-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Brenda-Mine-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Brenda-Mine-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Brenda-Mine-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Brenda-Mine-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Brenda-Mine.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Mine is located close to and above Peachland Lake, our watershed.&nbsp; The mine is a former copper and molybdenum open pit mine which began operations in 1969 and ceased &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3097,"parent":2298,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3100,"href":"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2665\/revisions\/3100"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peachlandwpa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}