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Title: Mount Polley mine tailings pond breach: full water ban in place
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Goober911
Date: 2014-08-04 16:34:37
Canadian

   

Drink up BC! Land of the hypocrites! Always pointing the finger at Alberta.

   

You're only a dumber version of a Canadian of Convenience.

You don't count anymore, 'merican.

   

Take a big drink dickhead..lol

   

No, thanks, sport. I'll give it a pass.

   

JJ lives in Phoenix, he doesn't need to drink it, he breathes it in all day.


7 U.S. cities with the worst air pollution

http://www.mnn.com/health/healthy-space ... on/phoenix


And the winner is... Phoenix, Arizona. Can you say, "brown cloud"?


Congrats. JJ.

   

I always think of this cartoon when these 2 pud pullers get together.

   

Funny, I always think of you as this dude when you post.

   

That's Rayden and Gunnair to the T!

   

Jeez if you lived in Central BC you wouldn't mention brown clouds today. It was 10 degrees warmer in Prince George than in Vanderhoof cuz of the smoke today. And my Jeep was full of ash again when I woke up this morning....

   

Chatter suggests this spill could effect up to 1/4 of the salmon population.

   

Probably because JJ is there. Guy's a walking cloud of negativity.

   

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/bri ... e19920040/

A tailings pond that breached Monday, releasing a slurry of contaminated water and mine waste into several central British Columbia waterways, had been growing at an unsustainable rate, an environmental consultant says.

Brian Olding, who operates Brian Olding and Associates Ltd., said Imperial Metals Corp. (TSX: III) had been working on fixing the problem with waste water from the mine. Olding said he was hired by the company as well as the Williams Lake and Soda Creek First Nations to review the company’s plans to treat and release water as part of the province’s effluent release permitting process.

A summary of material inside the tailings pond filed with Environment Canada said there was over 400,000 kilograms of arsenic, 177,000 kilograms of lead and 18,400 tonnes of copper and its compounds in the pond.

Olding said not only is the water potentially hazardous, so are the tailings sediments carried along with it, he said.

“You don’t know how far they’re going to travel until you check it out and you don’t know what’s in those sediments. If they dry out on the side, and grass starts to grow on them, and animals start to eat them, and Indians start killing moose, bear, whatever else eats there, then you’ve got a human contaminant issue.”

Now the Bullshit brigade.
Bennett, who was travelling to the area on Tuesday, said government and company officials will get to the bottom of what happened and make sure it doesn’t happen again.

   

Well, duh!!!

   

Polley Lake and everything around it drains into Quesnel Lake, fortunately near it's outlet at Likely, downstream from there is the Quesnel River which then flows into the Fraser River at the beautiful town of Quesnel, it then makes it's way to the salt chuck and Georgia strait. So, all in all it is a fairly small area affected in terms of size and more important the population of the area is quite small.

   

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