Mount Polley mine spill : an accident waiting to happen ?
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A enormous tailings pond containing waste from a nearby gold and copper mine collapsed last month in British Columbia (B.C.), releasing billions of litres of wastewater and toxic sludge into nearby lakes and streams. A local state of emergency was called following the incident, and a temporary ban put on using #water from the area. But was this just an unfortunate accident, or the inevitable result of #Canada's increasingly lax and mining-friendly environmental regulation? The spill, which (...)
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