B.C. Environmental Disaster
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 12:07AM
El Guapo in Conservation, Environment, Film and Video, mine disaster

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)

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