#quesnel lake

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Quesnel Lake, British Columbia, Canada [3978 x 2983] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn https://ift.tt/3pujs8Y

[allthecanadianpolitics]

B.C. Quietly Grants Mount Polley Mine Permit to Pipe Mine Waste Directly Into Quesnel Lake

In a press release the B.C. Ministry of Environment said the permit was granted after extensive community and First Nations consultation. Local municipalities as well as local First Nations were vocally against the permit, however.

The B.C. Ministry of Environment has quietly granted the Mount Polley Mining Corporation permission to drain mining waste directly into Quesnel Lake, B.C.’s deepest fjord lake and a source of drinking water for residents of Likely, B.C., as part of a “long-term water management plan.”

The wastewater discharge permit comes nearly three years after the collapse of the Mount Polley mine tailings pond spilled an estimated 25 million cubic metres of mining waste into Quesnel Lake, in what is considered the worst mining disaster in Canadian history.

No charges and no fines have been laid for the spill that cost B.C. taxpayers an estimated $40 million in cleanup costs and that B.C.’s chief mine inspector, Al Hoffman, found was the result of “poor practices” and “non-compliances.”

Some critics feel the new wastewater discharge permit simply grants Mount Polley the permission to continue polluting Quesnel Lake.

“The permit really adds insult to injury,” said Nikki Skuce, project director for Northern Confluence, an initiative based out of Smithers that aims to improve land-use decisions in B.C.’s salmon watersheds.

“Mount Polley still hasn’t cleaned the initial spill up. It’s still visible there in the lake,” Skuce said.

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The Quesnel River Fishing

The Quesnel River Fishing

The Fraser River (Quesnel River) is British Columbia’s largest watershed and the world’s largest single producer of sockeye salmon. The Fraser River empties into the sea in downtown Vancouver, where salmon swim past container ships and down busy highways. The salmon eventually make it to the middle of the watershed, a wide plateau in BC’s interior known as the Caribou region. The Caribou region…

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[gwlarson2002]

When mines poison B.C. waterways, taxpayers swallow the costs

Outdated laws, weak enforcement leave the public on the hook for cleanup. The scale of the Mount Polley mine disaster is hard to comprehend.

[desmogblog]

Desmog Canada Managing Editor Carol Linnitt recently traveled to the mouth of the Hazeltine Creek where billions of liters of mining waste from the Mount Polley mine poured into Quesnel Lake.