Contents from a tailings pond is pictured going down the Hazeltine Creek into Quesnel Lake near the town of Likely, B.C. Tuesday, August, 5, 2014. The pond which stores toxic waste from the Mount ...

has released a new report that cites increasing underground seepage of contaminants from the mine’s tailings pond. The report comes as British Columbia regulators are considering the mine ...

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 ...

The B.C. government is allowing the height of the Mount Polley tailings dam to be raised, a decade after a similar storage site burst.

Kukpi7 (Chief) Rhonda Phillips of Xatśūll First Nation says the provincial government gave the green light to a bigger tailings pond for Mount Polley without an environmental assessment and ...

The tailings pond spill, which happened on Aug. 4, 2014, is considered one of the largest environmental disasters in provincial history and one of the worst mining disasters in Canada. Mining ...

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.

Contents from a tailings pond is pictured going down the Hazeltine Creek into Quesnel Lake near the town of Likely, B.C. on August, 5, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward VICTORIA — The British ...

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.