Mount Polley

• 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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• Deadline looms for charges against Mount Polley mine owners for 2014 disaster

  Prosecutors in Ottawa have until Sunday to lay charges under the Fisheries Act against Imperial Metals, but more serious federal charges could come later.

  Environment

  Aug 3, 2019
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• Mount Polley mine to suspend operations due to sagging copper prices

  Imperial Metals is shutting down operations at British Columbia's Mount Polley Mine.

  Jan 7, 2019
• 4 years after Mt. Polley, B.C. could see 2 more tailings dam failures in the next decade

  "Just in B.C. itself, there would in all likelihood be two more tailing stem collapses in the next decade and probably six in the next 30 years."

  Aug 28, 2018
• 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
• Mount Polley tailings pond spill won’t result in provincial charges

  But B.C.'s Environment Minister says federal charges remain a possibility.

  Environment

  Aug 2, 2017
• Advocates continue fight for dam collapse charges

  An advocacy group will be back in provincial court in Williams Lake, B.C., today pursuing private prosecution against the province and a mining company over the collapse of the Mount Polley tailings dam.

  Mar 27, 2017
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• MiningWatch launches private prosecution against B.C. government and mining company

  An advocacy group has launched a private prosecution under the Fisheries Act against the B.C. government and a mining company over the disastrous consequences of the collapse of the Mount Polley tailings dam.

  Environment

  Oct 18, 2016
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• Mount Polley mine owner sues over dam design

  The owner of the Mount Polley mine in British Columbia's Interior has sued two engineering firms for damages over a disastrous dam collapse two years ago.

  Jul 8, 2016