Pollutants from Mount Polley breach may have long-term effects

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Months after a dam at Mount Polley mine collapsed, releasing more than 25 million cubic metres of tailings and water, a polluted plume of sediments continued to circulate through Quesnel Lake.

Now a study by researchers from two universities and the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans is raising concerns about the long-term impact of that plume, which is still exposing fish, plants and insects to copper, selenium and other metals.

LINK (via: The Globe and Mail)

Fresh concerns from water testing in Lake Quesnel

More than two months after the environmental disaster, concerns are still being raised about the contents of the tailings pond at the Mt. Polley mine.

“They were taking in human waste, medical waste and solid waste from the Greater Vancouver area and they were bringing it onto the Mt. Polley site and dumping it.”

LINK (via:CKNW)