Mount Polley Mine Disaster

• Engineers disciplined eight years after Mount Polley mine disaster

  Three engineers have been disciplined nearly eight years after British Columbia's worst mining disaster.

  Environment

  Mar 13, 2022
  
• Updates to B.C.’s tailings code after Mount Polley disaster an improvement: auditor

  B.C.'s chief auditor of mines found changes to the province's tailings storage requirements made after the Mount Polley disaster have generally improved mining waste management.

  Environment

  Jun 19, 2021
  
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• Even after the Mt. Polley disaster, B.C. dams are still being built without approval: activist

  Mines minister: "It's an issue that shouldn't have happened in the first place."

  Politics

  Nov 24, 2017
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• Mount Polley mine protesters arrested in Vancouver after “aggressive behaviour”

  Police say four people have been arrested following a protest against the Mount Polley mine at its head office in Vancouver.

  Crime

  Aug 9, 2016
• Minister confident of solution to Imperial Metals mine blockade

  Mines Minister Bill Bennet hopes a new offer will end a First Nations blockade of a northwestern B.C. mine owned by the same company involved in a tailings pond breach in the Cariboo.

  Aug 14, 2014