The New Brunswick government has proposed changes to the Mining Act that would allow prospectors access to any property on which they’ve made a mineral rights claim and let them dig without notifying the landowner or asking permission.
The bill has some landowners and a farmers’ group seething.
“This change makes me quite upset,” said John Detorakis, owner of Canada Green Nursery and Garden Centre in the southwestern New Brunswick community of St. George.
Detorakis was stunned last year when he found out his farm was a part of a mineral rights claim by a Montreal mining company looking for gold.
John Detorakis says he’s not
