Mining is big business in B.C. and it’s an industry that produces a lot of waste. A new report highlights 11 mines of concern and what’s stopping the province from getting them to clean up their acts.
Concerns are growing about the downstream impacts of Canadian mines. So much so that an American non-profit commissioned planes to give journalists and community leaders a bird’s-eye view of two sites.
Four years from now, fields in the Jadar river valley in western Serbia where Djorjde Kapetanovic grows corn and soy to feed his cattle could be turned into a waste dump for Europe's biggest lithium mine.
The expansion could increase the height of a dam holding back mining waste to 255 metres — taller than Vancouver's highest skyscraper — without requiring an environmental assessment.
Environmental group calls for official Canada-U.S. International Joint Commission investigation over pollution downstream of Teck Resources’ operations
Canada and the U.S. are bound together by waterways that transcend political borders. But what happens when industrial development changes those waters in ways that could last hundreds of years?
