A little over a month ago, a dam failed in a tailings pond at the Mount Polley mine near Likely, British Columbia. We’ve written about the breach on a couple occasions, but we haven’t written about it lately. At the end of August, the Ministry of Environment said that elevated concentrations of copper, iron, manganese, arsenic, […]
Earlier this month, we wrote about the Mount Polley mine disaster in British Columbia. And, as seems to be the case with most stories along these lines, a pattern’s emerging of greed and corruption among the agencies and politicians who are supposed to be looking out for their constituents’ welfare. Last week, the Vancouver Sun reported that N. […]
On Monday, August 4, a failed dam in a tailings pond of the Mount Polley copper and gold mine near Lively, British Columbia released what had originally been reported to be five million cubic meters (1.3 billion gallons, or the equivalent of 2000 Olympic-sized swimming pools) of mining waste into nearby rivers and creeks. However, the actual size of the spill […]