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Scoop
02-06-2025
- General
- Scoop
Fire And Emergency King's Birthday Honours Recipients Congratulated
Fire and Emergency New Zealand Board Chair Rebecca Keoghan has congratulated four Fire and Emergency personnel from Oxford, Fox Glacier, Matatā and Taihape who have been recognised in the 2025 King's Birthday Honours List released today. "These awards recognise the outstanding contributions that our people have made to Fire and Emergency, Search and Rescue and their local communities over many years," Rebecca Keoghan says. The recipients are: Ronald (Ron) Ealam (Oxford) - Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to Search and Rescue Marius Bron (Fox Glacier) - King's Service Medal (KSM) for services to Search and Rescue and the community Gavin Dennis (Matatā) - King's Service Medal (KSM) for services to Fire and Emergency New Zealand and the community Alan (Curly) Troon (Taihape) - King's Service Medal (KSM) for services to Fire and Emergency New Zealand. 'We are all incredibly proud of this fantastic achievement," Rebecca Keoghan says. "On behalf of Fire and Emergency, thank you for your ongoing dedication to our organisation and your communities." Additional information: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) Ronald Bruce (Ron) Ealam Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to Search and Rescue Mr Ron Ealam has been contributing to Land Search and Rescue for more than 50 years. Mr Ealam has been a member of the Oxford Fire Brigade since 1996. He has contributed 25 years of service to the New Zealand Land Search and Rescue Dogs, helping train dogs. He has been a qualified national trainer and assessor for Search Dogs for more than ten years, specialising in border collies, attending several annual dog training camps each year. He helped develop the official New Zealand Land Search and Rescue Search Dogs Training Pathway and Assessments in 2009, which forms the basis of the Search Dogs pathways today. He has been a member of the Oxford Land Search and Rescue, contributing to local search and rescue meetings and training nights, and training dogs, which takes at least two years before they become operational. During the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes, he was part of the initial response in the first three days in the Redcliff area and helped with welfare and house checks. He has been the elected Group Chair for Oxford Land Search and Rescue for more than 10 years. Mr Ealam received the New Zealand Search and Rescue Excellence award in 2023 for his contributions. King's Service Medal (KSM) Marius Jean Bron King's Service Medal (KSM) for services to Search and Rescue and the community Mr Marius Bron has served the Fox Glacier community in various volunteer emergency service roles since 1999. On a voluntary basis Mr Bron leads the local branches of South Westland Land Search and Rescue Group, the Civil Defence service and the Community Committee. He also volunteers for the Department of Conservation, assisting in the management of alpine huts in the area. He works to ensure these huts are fit for use by both domestic and international visitors. He is also a local volunteer firefighter for Fire and Emergency New Zealand and a St John Ambulance first responder. The skills he has gained from these various roles make him a central figure in the Fox Glacier community. He and his team have received national recognition for their search and rescue efforts, including the successful rescue of two climbers on Mt Rolleston and the successful overnight rescue of an injured person on a glacier. He was involved in the creation of important facilities for the Fox Glacier community, including the Emergency Services Centre and the Community Centre. His efforts included driving the concept stage, fundraising and project managing. In addition to his volunteer work, Mr Bron is Operations Manager at Fox Glacier Guiding, which brings tourist business to the community. Gavin Lloyd Dennis, JP King's Service Medal (KSM) for services to Fire and Emergency New Zealand and the community Mr Gavin Dennis has served the Matatā community for close to 40 years. Mr Dennis is currently Chief Fire Officer of the Matatā Volunteer Fire Brigade, having held various ranks since joining in 1987. While Deputy Chief Fire Officer, he played a key role in the response to major flood events in 2005, with the town cut off for several days. He instigated the Matatā Volunteer Fire Brigade's Cadet Programme in 2014, for young people aged 15 to 16 to join the brigade to gain experience and life skills. The programme has been successful in recruiting these young people as volunteer recruit firefighters when eligible, forming a large part of the brigade's membership over the past 10 years. He was a member of the Rangitaiki Community Board from 2007 to 2019, serving four years as Deputy Chairperson, and helped oversee the town's recovery efforts following the 2017 Edgecumbe flood event. He has served on the Boards of Trustees of Matatā Public School and Trident High School, including holding several offices across the period 1993 to 2010. He has chaired the Matatā Residents Association and the Matatā Community Resource Centre. Mr Dennis was elected to the Whakatāne District Council in 2019. Alan Rex (Curly) Troon King's Service Medal (KSM) for services to Fire and Emergency New Zealand Mr Alan "Curly" Troon is a Life Member of the Taihape Volunteer Fire Brigade and has helped to promote Taihape through gumboot throwing. Mr Troon joined the Taihape Volunteer Fire Brigade in 1991 and has been Chief Fire Officer since 2009, being awarded Life Membership in 2022. He oversaw the rebuild of the new Taihape Fire Station which opened in 2022. He has worked for Rangitikei County Council and has held many volunteer roles within the community, including past President of the Taihape Tennis Association and Taihape Kindergarten Committee and is the current President of the New Zealand Boot Throwing Association (NZBTA). In the mid-1980s, he became a champion thrower in Taihape's annual Gumboot Day and has since promoted the sport with his wife. They have taken Taihape to world competitions. In 2021 he won the Toyota Lifetime Legacy Award from NZBTA as part of the Norwood Rural Sports Award. He is a past member of the Taihape St John Area Committee and has driven the Taihape ambulance when the team is short staffed. Mr Troon has been coaching young people at the Taihape Badminton Club since 2023.
Associated Press
29-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Seabridge Files Responses to Petitions Challenging KSM's Substantially Started Designation
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - May 29, 2025) - Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX: SEA) (NYSE: SA) ('Seabridge' or the 'Company') reported today it has filed its responses in BC Supreme Court to petitions challenging the Environmental Assessment Office's ('EAO') decision granting Seabridge Gold's KSM project Substantially Started ('SS') Designation. On July 29, 2024, the EAO determined that Seabridge's KSM project had been substantially started, ensuring that the project's Environmental Assessment Certificate is no longer subject to expiry. Our submissions further strengthen and broaden the Responses that had been filed by the BC Government in late April 2025, detailing the extent of our engagement with the petitioners in support of our SS application and the previously granted Provincial, Federal, and Nisga'a environmental approvals. Seabridge's extensive engagement with the TSKLH and the funding support we have provided to the TSKLH (one of the petitioners) was initiated in 2007 and has continued to be available ever since, including during the period of review of our application for an SS determination. The TSKLH have been included in all reviews of Seabridge's regulatory applications and participated to the extent they decided warranted, with funding support, contrary to their assertions. Our responses also support BC's position on why granting the SS Designation was not unreasonable. The Petitions, the Responses from Seabridge and the BC Government and our related news releases can be found here. The parties have scheduled the period from September 22 to September 29, 2025 for the court hearing. Seabridge CEO Rudi Fronk stated 'our team's engagement and work in support of advancing KSM has been exemplary, especially while striving to achieve the SS determination. I am confident that our Responses, and those of the BC Government, provide strong support that the EAO's decision to grant the SS Designation was indeed procedurally fair and not unreasonable. Resolving this issue will facilitate the next steps in project development beyond this year's extensive work schedule. While this legal process continues, the SS Designation remains in effect.' About Seabridge Gold Seabridge holds a 100% interest in several North American gold projects. Seabridge's principal asset, the KSM project, and its Iskut project, are located in Northwest British Columbia, Canada's 'Golden Triangle', the Courageous Lake project is located in Canada's Northwest Territories, the Snowstorm project in the Getchell Gold Belt of Northern Nevada and the 3 Aces project in the Yukon Territory. For a full breakdown of Seabridge's Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources by category please visit the Company's website at ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD 'Rudi Fronk' Chairman & C.E.O. For further information please contact: Rudi P. Fronk, Chairman and C.E.O. Tel: (416) 367-9292 • Fax: (416) 367-2711 Email: [email protected] To view the source version of this press release, please visit
Winnipeg Free Press
17-05-2025
- Business
- Winnipeg Free Press
Nations Royalty seeks to bring together Indigenous groups with mining royalties
A first-of-its-kind, royalty-seeking company isn't searching for crowns. Instead, it's eyeing Indigenous communities in Manitoba. 'A big part of my job is building trust,' said Kody Penner, Nations Royalty vice-president of corporate development. He stopped in Winnipeg on Friday. It's the latest destination he's visited to generate interest for Canada's first majority Indigenous-owned mining royalty company. MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Kody Penner, V-P of corporate development at Nations Royalty. The firm went public last year; it's traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. British Columbia-based Nisga'a Nation launched the company alongside mining financiers such as billionaire Frank Giustra. The goal, Penner said, is to band Indigenous groups with mining royalties together and grow their wealth. When a mine begins, it signs an impact benefit agreement with impacted communities. Those communities get money through the deal. They might receive a percentage of the mine's revenue or profit. Nisga'a Nation has impact-benefit agreements with five different mines in B.C.'s so-called 'Golden Triangle.' It put all future payments from the mines into Nations Royalty. In exchange, it became majority owner of the company (77 per cent). One of the mines, Seabridge Gold's KSM project, is touted as one of the world's largest undeveloped gold projects. The Brucejack mine (gold and silver) in B.C. is currently the only operational mine in Nations Royalty's portfolio. The company was launched after raising $10 million from investors and receiving backing from the Fiore Group. Giustra, co-founder of Wheaton Precious Metals — a streaming firm valued at more than $40 billion in February — is the largest shareholder outside of Nisga'a Nation, Penner said. Nations Royalty is now looking for other Indigenous groups with mining royalties to join in. Communities would trade their impact benefit agreement payments — or part of them — for equity in the company. 'When you're able to pool many different payments from different mines … into a single company, you become more valuable,' Penner said. 'You're creating a lower-risk environment for investors.' He's been sharing the same points with local leaders he's met throughout the country: they could get equity (and/or money) quickly instead of waiting for an annual cheque; diversification lowers risk; and, if all goes as planned, the company's value will greatly increase over time. Penner declined to say projected returns, adding he can't predict it. Nations Royalty hasn't yet inked deals with other Indigenous communities to date. 'We've worked so hard to get these (impact-benefit agreements),' said Penner, who's from Tahltan First Nation in B.C. 'It took a few hundred years of colonization to finally get to a point where we have impact-benefit agreements and we have participation at these mine sites. (So) it's a little bit of a trust thing.' Penner said he's spoken with Indigenous leaders from Manitoba, Ontario, B.C. and Nunavut. Some have questioned if they want others managing their money; weighing cash needs now versus in the future is another factor, Penner said. He wouldn't divulge how many Manitoba-based communities he's spoken to or how close Nations Royalty is to signing a new deal, citing confidentiality. Indigenous groups who put their impact-benefit agreements into Nations Royalty will continue to be part-owners as long as they hold shares in the company, even when the agreement-bound mine closes and its related payments stop, Penner said. Renee Greyeyes has kept tabs on Nations Royalty. The Indigenous Chamber of Commerce Manitoba president considers it a 'good model.' Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. 'It does change the game for us,' Greyeyes said. 'It puts Indigenous nations on the shareholders side of resource projects. It's not just stakeholders and us being consultants anymore.' She views Nations Royalty as a way to connect Indigenous people with capital market access, boosting finance, housing, health and education. More Indigenous ownership in all sectors is key going forward, Greyeyes stressed. At least one local First Nation is working with the chamber to start its own mining project, Greyeyes hinted. 'When we talk about economic reconciliation, that's it,' she said, adding she believes Nations Royalty is 'moving us in the right direction.' Gabrielle PichéReporter Gabrielle Piché reports on business for the Free Press. She interned at the Free Press and worked for its sister outlet, Canstar Community News, before entering the business beat in 2021. Read more about Gabrielle. 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Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
An Under-Appreciated Threat from Airborne Attacks on Large Nuclear Power Plants
Most of the 440 operable nuclear power plants (NPPs) currently deployed worldwide have long been recognized as potential targets for attack by enemy military forces or terrorists. Such an attack could not only destroy the power-generating capacity of the plant but also release a large plume of radioactive material having the potential to cause long-term economic and environmental damage, create radioactive exclusion zones and render surrounding areas uninhabitable for decades. COMMENTARY The vulnerability of existing large NPPs to airborne attack is largely created because they are located above ground. As a result, the containment structure and portions of other plant buildings housing hazardous radioactive material are directly exposed to airborne attacks capable of breaching the containment structure and other NPP building structures. These attacks could come from, for example, earth penetrating weapons designed to penetrate hardened structures such as military bunkers; military aircraft using bombs or missiles; direct impact by large commercial aircraft such those used in the 9/11 attack; or perhaps by new types of airborne weapons such as the explosive-laden drones used in the war between Ukraine and Russia. Moreover, an attack on an NPP could be deliberately planned to take advantage of prevailing winds at the time of the attack such that the winds would carry the plume of radioactive material to nearby areas that include targets of interest. Given the large inventory of hazardous radionuclides inside the containment structure and portions of other plant buildings, a large NPP could, therefore, perhaps be viewed by terrorists or enemy military forces as a type of pre-deployed, radiological dispersal device (that is, a type of 'dirty bomb'). The reasonableness of the threat posed is indicated by the Chernobyl accident, in which radioactive particles reached distances of up to 200 kilometers, affecting areas in northern Ukraine, southern Belarus, and parts of western Russia. In that respect, a single attack on carefully selected NPPs would be dual-purpose: destroy the electrical power-generating capacity of the NPP and simultaneously create a large, hazardous radioactive plume carried by the wind to engulf nearby strategic targets. The enormity of the number of potential targets in areas near U.S. NPPs is illustrated by an estimate that a third of the U.S population—and 14 of the largest metropolitan population areas—are within a 50-mile radius of an NPP. To illustrate this threat, consider the following hypothetical example of what might have happened if the terrorist plan for the 9/11 attack on the twin towers in New York City had been slightly modified. The 9/11 Commission Report describes Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) as the al-Qaeda field commander who planned the 9/11 attacks. It states that Sheikh Mohammed originally proposed to Osama bin Laden, leader of al Qaeda, to hijack 10 large commercial aircraft, and crash them not only into the twin towers but also '…CIA and FBI headquarters, nuclear power plants, and the tallest buildings in California and the state of Washington.' However, bin Laden '…was not convinced that it [KSM's proposal] was practical.' His final decision was to hijack large commercial aircraft and use them to strike only the twin towers, the Pentagon, and the U.S. Capitol. Consider the consequences if the al-Qaeda plan to strike the twin towers had been slightly different. If instead of striking only the twin towers, imagine if the plan had been to strike the twin towers and/or the Indian Point NPP, located about 40 miles north of New York City, with the objective of having the released radioactive plume carried by the wind in a southerly direction into New York City and the surrounding area. Data from National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration measuring stations in the New York City area at Central Park and at LaGuardia, Newark, and John F. Kennedy airports indicate that sustained wind directions and sustained wind speeds on September 11, 2001, varied from 300, 330, 360, and 320 degrees, and with sustained speeds of 12, 12, 21, and 18 miles per hour, respectively. Thus, if the hypothetical September 11, 2011, attack on the Indian Point NPP had been successful, then it is conceivable, perhaps probable, that within three to four hours, the resulting plume of hazardous radionuclides could have been carried from the Indian Point NPP location to the south and southeast, covering portions of western Long Island, New York City, and Newark, New Jersey. It must be stressed that the actual risk posed by the plume would depend on more than the radioactive characteristics of the particles inside the plume, but also on interactions among many other factors such as plume turbulence and particle size, shape, density, and release rate, for example. The result would perhaps not have been as sudden and dramatic as the actual attack on the twin towers. But imagine, for example, the economic consequences if Wall Street and other parts of Manhattan and New York City were turned into a multi-year uninhabitable radioactive exclusion zone—not to mention the near- and long-term deaths and human health problems in the area. What can be done to reduce the risk of such attacks? Many actions are possible. For existing large NPPs, new military strategies and technologies could be applied to detect and deter attacks. To better protect the NPP, should an attack be attempted, perhaps the plants could be retrofitted with large, protective physical barriers to cover the containment structures and key portions of plant buildings containing hazardous radionuclides. For future large NPPs yet to be constructed, perhaps the plants could be designed and constructed to better deter, defend, and protect in the event of an attack. Also, where feasible, perhaps siting NPPs underground in rock caverns could be used to create a robust, natural, protective cover against airborne attack. Also, if the caverns were properly sited and constructed, the overlying rock mass would function as a natural containment structure, thereby avoiding the need for a costly engineered containment structure. Existing large NPPs sited above ground are vulnerable to airborne attacks by terrorists or enemy military forces. The attacks could be designed and timed such that nearby populations and critical infrastructure would be engulfed by the plume of hazardous radionuclides released by the attack. Nations considering the construction of new, large NPPs should evaluate the probability and consequences of a successful airborne attack and modify their siting and design basis as necessary. —C.W. (Wes) Myers, PhD is a retired geologist who worked for 25 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a research manager and on nuclear waste disposal issues.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Seabridge Gold Files First Quarter Financial Statements and MD&A
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - May 13, 2025) - Seabridge Gold (TSX: SEA) (NYSE: SA) announced today that it has filed its Interim Financial Statements and Management's Discussion and Analysis for the three-month period ended March 31, 2025 on SEDAR+ ( These statements are also available on Seabridge's website at Seabridge's Q1 2025 Report to Shareholders can be found here. Recent Highlights Secures US$100 million in new financings including US$20 million from a strategic investor 2025 field programs underway at KSM Issues 2024 report card and 2025 corporate objectives BC Government files responses to petitions challenging KSM's substantially started designation Fully funded exploration programs planned at Iskut and 3 Aces Gold price hits all-time high at US$3,500 per ounce Financial Results During the first quarter of 2025, Seabridge posted net earnings of $10.6 million ($0.11 per share) compared to a net loss of $8.2 million ($0.09 per share) for the same period in 2024. During the first quarter of 2025, Seabridge invested $14.3 million in mineral interests, property and equipment compared to $39.3 million invested in the first quarter of 2024. The working capital position increased by $110.9 million, from $37.8 million on December 31, 2024 to $148.7 million on March 31, 2025. Seabridge holds a 100% interest in several North American gold projects. Seabridge's assets include the KSM and Iskut projects located in northwest British Columbia, Canada's "Golden Triangle", the Courageous Lake project located in Canada's Northwest Territories, the Snowstorm project in the Getchell Gold Belt of Northern Nevada and the 3 Aces project set in the Yukon Territory. For a full breakdown of Seabridge's mineral reserves and mineral resources by category please visit Seabridge's website at None of the Toronto Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange, or their Regulation Services Providers accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD"Rudi Fronk" Chairman and C.E.O. For further information please contact:Rudi P. Fronk, Chairman and (416) 367-9292 • Fax: (416) 367-2711Email: info@ To view the source version of this press release, please visit Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
