The Mount Polley environmental disaster: Greg McLinnons comment: To get an idea of how much that is: 2,400 m³ of water flows over Niagra Falls every second. This spill would flow over Niagra Falls for 34 minutes. Amazing how much this is played down in the articles about it, cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mount-polley-mine-tailings-pond-breach-called-environmental-disaster-1.2727171 Brings back memories of the Omai Gold Mine tailings pond failure in Guyana in 1995, which was WIDELY RECOGNIZED AS THE WORST MINING ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER IN HISTORY AND IT WAS SMALLER THAN THIS. It was also owned by a Canadian company: Cambior and Golden Star Resources (The Mount Polley Mine is owned by Imperial Metals). https://ejatlas.s3.amazonaws/docs/omai-gold-mine-tailings-dam-guyana/Failure_of_the_Omai_Tailings_Dam.pdf Thanks Lee!
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:22:10 +0000
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