A B.C. First Nation that is going to court to try to stop a mining company from raising its tailings dam is now applying for ...

Reclaiming and regenerating environments affected by mining tailings requires greater financing and innovation.

A First Nation in B.C. has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam a decade after a similar storage site at the mine gave way, creating one ...

And in December 2024, 15 federal Fisheries Act charges were laid against the mine's parent company, Imperial Metals Corp., and two other firms over the collapse of the tailings pond dam ...

Rhonda Phillips noted that the mining company is also seeking to further expand operations, which would result in a tailings dam 13 metres higher than the existing one. “Xatśūll will continue ...

2:11 Mt. Polley mine reopens after tailings pond spill The British Columbia government is allowing the height of the Mount Polley tailings dam to be raised an extra four metres, a decade after a ...

A First Nation is launching a legal challenge to the British Columbia government’s approval of a tailings pond dam expansion at the Mount Polley mine. The approval comes just over a decade after ...

If it’s expanded to include an underground mine, that could increase to 15 million tons per year. Three tailings dams surround the mine to store the rock waste, which will exist in perpetuity.

The B.C. government has issued a consent order to Mount Polley Mining Corp. to raise a tailings pond dam by four metres at the site of one of the largest environmental disasters in provincial history.

A British Columbia First Nation has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam a decade after a similar storage site at the mine gave way ...