Nearly eight years after the largest tailings spill into a lake ever recorded, impacts of the Mount Polley Mine disaster in central B.C. are still being observed. While most of the contaminated solids ...

Mount Polley Mine, the Canadian operation that spilled 4.5 billion gallons of water and 10.3 million cu yd of waste after a massive tailings storage pond breach in 2014, has won government permission ...

LIKELY, B.C. — A dam holding back the tailings pond at a metals mine in central British Columbia burst Monday, releasing about 353 million cubic feet of water and about 158 million cubic feet of what ...

A British Columbia mine, scene of one of North America's worst recent environmental disaster, is being temporarily shut down due to the low price of copper. A tailings dam breach at the Mt. Polley ...

Josie Osborne, Minister of Energy, Mines and Low-Carbon Innovation, has released the following statement on the 10-year anniversary of the Mount Polley dam breach: “Ten years ago this week, the Mount ...

Six years ago this month, British Columbia suffered an environmental catastrophe when a dam at the Mount Polley Mine collapsed, spilling more than a billion gallons of toxic waste into Quesnel Lake ...

Former Xatsull First Nation chief Bev Sellars recalls an emergency meeting after the Mount Polley Mine disaster, where elders were in tears as they thought of fish swimming through the toxic waste ...