Exhibit 99.8

CONSENT OF QUALIFIED PERSON

I, Ignacy (Tony) Lipiec, P.Eng., consent to the public filing of the technical report prepared for New Gold Inc (New Gold) titled “Blackwater Gold Project, British Columbia, NI 43-101 Technical Report on Feasibility Study” that has an effective date of 14 January 2014 (the “technical report”).

I also consent to any extracts from, or a summary of, the technical report in the New Gold press release (the “news release”) entitled “New Gold Announces Blackwater Feasibility Study Results” dated 12 December 2013.

I certify that I have read the news release being filed by New Gold and that it fairly and accurately represents the information in the sections of the technical report for which I am responsible.

Dated: 22 January, 2014

“Signed and sealed”

Tony Lipiec, P.Eng.

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