Photo: Cariboo Regional District Emergency Operations Centre facebook page The apparent breach of a tailings pond connected Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley Mine, near Likely, BC, has led to an emergency water ban from The Cariboo Regional District. The following update was issued by the district on its Emergency Operations facebook page this morning:
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The Common Sense Canadian: KSM Mine promises epic gold, copper, jobs…and waste
The location of one of KSM’s three proposed open pit mines (Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska) The $5.3 billion proposed Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell (KSM) mine, which received BC government approval yesterday, boasts one of the world’s largest gold and copper deposits. But with big promises of jobs and ore come serious concerns over the staggering volumes of tailings and
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Liberal govt hubris handed Tsilhqot’in Nation bigger legal victory
The statue ‘Ivstitia’ (Justice) guards the entrance of the Supreme Court of Canada (Sean Kilpatrick/CP) The BC Liberal Government just couldn’t leave well enough alone. In choosing to appeal the Tsilhqot’in First Nation’s BC Supreme Court victory over land title and rights, the government set in motion a chain of events
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: SHAME: Harper Government Whitewashed Colombian Human Rights Abuses
by: Obert Madondo | May 20, 2014 To quote Amnesty International Canada’s Alex Neve: Canadian mining companies lead the mining world; but none aspire to lead the world in mining-related human rights abuses. That’s serious human rights abuses committed by Canadian mining companies particularly in the developing world. The Harper government had
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe Mair: Howe Sound under siege
Boaters raise the alarm over plans to re-industrialize Howe Sound (Future of Howe Sound Society) Howe Sound is Canada’s southernmost fjord. It is a natural beauty which should be declared a world-class heritage site. I grew up as a child on Howe Sound and well remember the men with the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Northwest Transmission Line: Environmental, financial boondoggle
According to new documents obtained via Freedom of Information search by the Vancouver Sun, the construction of the wildly over-budget, 344 km Northwest Transmission Line has been rife with environmental mismanagement. The line – which departs from a junction near Terrace, will carry power to a series of new mines in northwest
Continue readingThings Are Good: Help Bring Bad Mining Companies to Court
Q’eqchi’ communities in Guatemala have been resisting the push of Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals into their land. This resistance has been met by dubious practices by the Toronto-based mining corporation and now they are being brought to court. A group supporting the Q’eqchi’ communities is looking to bring attention
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Ajax Mine video featuring TRU dean unearths conflict
TRU’s dean of trades and technology is featured in an Ajax mine video (Youtube: Ajax Project ) The latest chapter in the controversial Ajax mine proposal planned for the edge of Kamloops, BC was released as a sleek corporate video titled “The Conversation” by mining company, KGHM International. “The Conversation”
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Taseko appeals Prosperity Mine rejection…again
The location of Taseko’s proposed New Prosperity Mine, west of Williams Lake VANCOUVER – The company behind a proposed B.C. gold and copper mine that was rejected twice by the federal government is asking the Federal Court to quash the environment minister’s decision. Taseko Mines Ltd. (TSX:TKO) says it’s filing
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Taseko Mines “like a cancer that just won’t go away”
The Tsilhqot’in First Nation is fighting a seemingly never-ending battle to save their land Read this Feb. 27 story from CBC.ca on Taseko Mines’ plan to appeal the second rejection by a federal review panel of its proposed Prosperity Mine. Ottawa’s second rejection of an open pit gold and copper
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: No prosperity for Taseko: Harper govt rejects BC mine
The location of Taseko’s proposed New Prosperity Mine, west of Williams Lake After three years, several court cases, two project designs and as many federal reviews, the Harper government has rejected Taseko Mines’ controversial Properity Mine proposal for BC. A statement issued earlier today on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s website noted that Environment
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Giant Mine clean-up involves freezing underground arsenic
Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Bob Weber, The Canadian Press YELLOWKNIFE – Plans to clean up what may be Canada’s worst toxic site are moving ahead with changes suggested by those who live beside Yellowknife’s Giant Mine. Last summer, a northern environmental regulator told the federal cabinet that it wasn’t entirely
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Thomas Berger leads watershed lawsuit v. Yukon development plan
Video by Damien Gillis; story by Dene Moore, The Canadian Press VANCOUVER – A coalition of First Nations and conservation groups is suing the Yukon government over its decision to open a vast region of the Canadian North to mining and industrial development. The group says the decision ignores a land-use
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: US woman sues Canadian mining titan Teck over toxins, disease
1988 image of effluent from Teck’s lead and Zinc smelter in Trail, BC (photo: Joel Rogers) by Dene Moore, Canadian Press VANCOUVER – A Washington state woman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B), claiming toxic pollutants from the company’s smelter in southeastern British Columbia are to blame
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Taseko wants judicial review into Prosperity Mine’s harsh assessment
Fish Lake, near the proposed “New Prosperity” Mine in BC VANCOUVER – Taseko Mines Ltd. (TSX:TKO) has formally requested a judicial review of a critical environmental assessment for the proposed New Prosperity copper-gold mine in the B.C. Interior. The company said Monday it has filed the request with the Federal
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Teck smelter’s downstream US neighbours may sue over pollution, illness
1988 image of effluent from Teck’s lead and Zinc smelter in Trail, BC (photo: Joel Rogers) Read this Nov. 25 story from CBC.ca on a potential lawsuit involving downstream pollution from a lead-zinc smelter owned by Teck Resources in Trail, BC. Residents of a small town in northern Washington state
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Athabasca River contaminated by Canada’s largest coal slurry spill
Read this Nov. 8 story from EcoWatch on what is quite possibly Canada’s largest coal slurry spill, which happened in late October near Hinton, Alberta. A scary thing happened on Halloween near Hinton, Alberta. Canada had what may be the largest coal slurry spill in its history when a dam
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: No Prosperity for Taseko? Report should kill mine; company keeps digging
Xeni Gwet’in Chief Roger William is celebrating a scathing new environmental report on a proposed mine in his territory A second, damning federal report on a proposed mine west of Williams Lake, BC, amid Tsilhqot’in First Nation territory, should sound the gold and copper mine’s death knell. The report, which
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Mining Magnate calls for end of growth economy
Ross Beaty Read this surprising Sept. 22 Vancouver Sun guest op-ed from one of Canada’s top mining tycoons, Ross Beaty, arguing for the end of growth and a new focus on building a steady-state economy. No system can grow forever — neither human nor economic. Yet the pursuit of continuous growth
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Mining company steps back from Sacred Headwaters standoff
A group of Tahltans and their supporters peacefully occupied Fortune’s drill in early September Fortune Minerals announced Monday it will voluntarily stand down from an escalating conflict with the local Tahltan First Nation. The Common Sense Canadian has been reporting on the standoff over a proposed mine in northwest BC’s Sacred Headwaters region
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