Miners welcome defeat of overseas rights bill

Canadian miners have welcomed the defeat of a controversial mining bill aimed at improving humastainless steel production flow chartn rights and environmental practices of companies operating overseas. The private members bill C-300 was defeated in parliament by 140 votes to 134 late on Wednesday.

Miners and the government warned passage of the bill would have damaged the reputation of the Canadian mining industry and acted as a deterrent to companies planning to locate their headquarters here. “Canada’s mining and exploration industry, which employs more than 306,000 Canadians, is pleased that the Parliament of Canada saw the importance of defeating bill C-300, a fundamentally flawed private members bill that would have damaged Canada’s exploration and mining industry and jeopardized jobs here in Canada and the local jobs in the communities in which we work,” the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada said in a release. “We appreciate the efforts of the Government of Canada in exposing the flaws of the bill and in working to defeat it in the House.”