Showing posts with label Waste Spill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Waste Spill. Show all posts

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Canadians Cut off From Local Water Supplies After Billion Gallon Waste Spill



Hundreds of British Columbia residents can no longer consume water at the place where they live following a billion gallon spill of mining waste that reached rivers and creeks in the Cariboo provincial area, the CBC reports.
The open-pit Mount Polley copper and gold mine recently suffered a breach in a tailings pond, which caused 1.3 billion gallons of slurry to pour out straight into Hazeltine Creek, equaling in size nearly 2,000 Olympic swimming pools.

ST

Please Like Us On facebook