First Nation takes B.C. government to court over Mount Polley dam expansion

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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 a tailings pond burst at the same mine, spilling more than 20 million cubic metres of mining wastewater into local waterways one of the province’s worst-ever environmental disasters.   Click here to read the story.   Click the following link for more information on Infrastructure.