Contamination Nation

• 16×9: Taxpayers will foot the bill for cleaning up contaminated sites

  There are more than 22,000 contaminated sites across the country that the government must pay to clean up.

  Canada

  Nov 22, 2014
  
• BLOG: Gold, arsenic and paranoia

  16x9 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 Mine

  The 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.

  Canada

  Nov 19, 2014
• Toxic dust buried under Yellowknife’s ‘Giant Mine’ to cost taxpayers $900M

  The 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.

  Canada

  Nov 18, 2014