Mount Polley: A Wake-Up Call For Canada’s Mining Industry

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By GuestAug 26, 2014, 7:35 pm73 pts
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. When a tailings pond broke at the Mount Polley gold and copper mine in south-central B.C., spilling millions of cubic metres of waste into a salmon-bearing stream, B.C. Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett called it an “extremely rare” occurrence, the first in 40…

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