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COMOX VALLEY - Twenty-eight environmental, political and labour organizations are banding together to demand rigorous environmental reviews for a proposed coal mine here.

Compliance Coal Corporation hopes to operate an underground coal mine on a 3100 heactare site 5kms west of Buckley Bay. Meterallergical coal would be extracted and shipped to Korea and Japan for steel manufacturing.

Critics say the Raven Coal site would have a negative environmental and economic impact on the region, especially on the nearby aquaculture industry. The company's CEO John Tapic says the only impact would be a positive economic one, with the creation of 850 new and spin-off jobs along with 200 construction jobs.

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