Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites

Title: Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites
Topic: Environment
Written By: akston
Date: Tuesday, June 17 @
Lakes are in B.C., Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories and Nunavut
CBC News has learned that 16 Canadian lakes are slated to be officially but quietly “reclassified” as toxic dump sites for mines. The lakes include prime wilderness fishing lakes from B.C. to Newfoundland.
Environmentalists say the process amounts to a “hidden subsidy” to mining companies, allowing them to get around laws against the destruction of fish habitat.
Under the Fisheries Act, it’s illegal to put harmful substances into fish-bearing waters. But, under a little-known subsection known as Schedule Two of the mining effluent regulations, federal bureaucrats can redefine lakes as “tailings impoundment areas.”
That means mining companies don’t need to build containment ponds for toxic mine tailings.

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These mining ventures are always extolling the virtues of the newest extraction project, hundreds of great paying jobs, lasting for years and years etc. Why do these companies always screw the environment? With millions in profit, they must be made to be responsible to deal with their own waste. Why give all the profit to a few overpaid executives so they can buy dozens of homes and cars around the world?

I saw some of these pristine lakes on CBC's news broadcast, and they are not expendable. They are beautiful untouched wilderness lakes, which make up yours and my Canada.

Harpers Canada has 16 of these sched 2 sites planned, six of which are in BC. Is is no accident that Harper supports pollution and raping of our environment. He has to go.