Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Huge Environmental Disaster at a British Columbia Gold Mine Follows Years of Government Warnings

CBC News
The operator of the Mount Polley mine, Imperial Metals, was warned as recently as a few months ago that levels of wastewater in its tailings pond were too high! Details here.


1 comment:

John Fefchak said...

A tragedy that no one wanted or expected ! Will this change anything or will governments continue to allow tailing ponds to victimize the people, our water sources, wildlife and and environment? These ponds are disasters just waiting to happen. (ticking time bombs)The Oil Tar Sand for instance , another government sponsored and promoted undertaking, with catastrophic consequences!

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