Contamination Nation
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16×9: Taxpayers will foot the bill for cleaning up contaminated sitesThere are more than 22,000 contaminated sites across the country that the government must pay to clean up.CanadaNov 22, 2014
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BLOG: Gold, arsenic and paranoia16x9 producer Brennan Leffler talks about Canada’s contaminated sites, and why they’re a $7-billion problem for taxpayers.Nov 21, 2014
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TIMELINE: Yellowknife’s Giant MineThe lure of gold helped build the fledgling northern community of Yellowknife when the Giant Mine site opened in 1948, but it came at a heavy cost.Nov 20, 2014
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Is there a contaminated site near you?Yellowknife's Giant Mine is just one of more than 22,000 contaminated sites owned by the federal government in Canada.CanadaNov 19, 2014
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Toxic dust buried under Yellowknife’s ‘Giant Mine’ to cost taxpayers $900MThe gold extraction process used at Giant Mine created a highly toxic by-product. Today, there is an almost unfathomable amount of toxic dust still buried underneath the site.CanadaNov 18, 2014
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