Blame the BC Liberals’ lax regulations for Mount Polley Mine, says Rafe Mair (BC Liberal facebook page) The Mount Polley Mine/Imperial Metals disaster is such that one scarcely knows where…
Aerial image of tailings pond breach (Cariboo Regional District) Mount Polley’s tailing pond breach is the worst environmental disaster in BC History. It will be a BC Day that goes…
Watch this aerial footage of yesterday’s Mount Polley Mine tailings pond breach, courtesy of the Cariboo Regional District. The failure of Imperial Metals’ gold-copper mine tailings pond prompted an emergency…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
