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December 8, 2014

The last few months have been pretty eventful. August saw the biggest mine spill in Canadian history at the Mount Polley mine in B.C. No-one was killed, thankfully, but the effects on the Lake Quesnel ecosystem (and especially the salmon) and the people that depend on it could be serious, and will not be fully known for years. We are pressuring the federal and provincial governments to make sure this cannot happen again: they need to fix regulatory and monitoring systems, and give affected communities a meaningful say in development. No longer can they or industry dismiss concerns by claiming that such disasters can’t happen anymore, or that mining is well controlled, engineered, and regulated.

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