Hiring more dingoes as babysitters – a reprise

August 7, 2015

I wrote, a year ago today, about the shameful circus near Likely, British Columbia, involving the failure of a tailings dam at a sulfide mine there. The toxic sludge is still there, sitting on the bottom of Quesnel Lake, a pristine lake that is — or maybe used to be — home to one of Canada’s largest […]

by Steve Timmer

Hiring more dingoes as babysitters

August 7, 2014

Many of you already know about the catastrophic — which seems almost too mild a word, under the circumstances — copper/nickel/gold tailings dam collapse in British Columbia. But if you haven’t, according to the Vancouver Observer, the Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam failed, and “dumped five million cubic metres of toxic waste near the Quesnel and Cariboo Rivers.” Oh, how […]

by Steve Timmer