Tuesday
Aug052014
B.C. Environmental Disaster
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 12:07AM Assesing the "possible" environmental impact?
The Ministry of Environment said the breach at Mount Polley Mine happened in the middle of the night. The ministry along with the Cariboo Regional District (CRD), RCMP, Central Cariboo Search and Rescue and emergency management crews are investigating and assessing the possible environmental impact.
“The tailings pond is about four kilometres long by four kilometres wide and it’s nearly empty,” McCraken told Global News. It’s believed to have contained as much as five billion cubic metres of waste water, the equivalent of 2,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
LINK (via: Global News)
tagged mine disaster in Conservation, Environment, Film and Video
mine disaster in Conservation, Environment, Film and Video
Reader Comments (3)
...But don't worry, Pebble Mine is 100% safe and this could NEVER happen (cough cough)
"crews are assessing possible environmental damage"...really?
Must be time to pay the CEO a couple of million then let him go...eh?
It is a freakin' tragedy. The mine management has put their main focus on profit and cut back on anything that they deemed as "not needed right now"