Who Pays to Clean up Old Mines?

Our mine reclamation security system is supposed to make sure mine owners pay to clean up their mine sites and downstream pollution, but there are so many exceptions, secrets, weak policies and backroom deals, that mine owners across the province are profiting while BC taxpayers cover the long-term cleanup risk.

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UBCM calls on Province to Regulate Private Land Logging

There is no legal requirement for logging practices on private land to be sustainable over time. This allows landowners to remove most or all of the forest cover in a short time period despite major impacts on wildlife, water and communities

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Polluting Our Neighbour’s River and Our Own

British Columbia has vowed to stop the building a bitumen pipeline across our province, over pollution and climate concerns. But on the other side of the province, in the Kootenays, pollution of a different kind is flowing from BC into Montana.

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Selenium in the Elk Valley

Late last month, Teck Coal announced plans to shut down their Line Creek water treatment plant. The plant was designed […]

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