Suncor is now in the process of reclaiming Pond 1, piping some tailings to another pond, and replacing them with gypsum to consolidate the tailings. By 2010, the company says, the surface will be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Canadian environmental nonprofit group, long critical of the Red Chris Mine in the northern watershed of the Stikine River, has released a new report that cites increasing underground seepage of ...

Two reviews led to changes in 2016 on how tailings ponds are regulated, and the government says the proposed dam height increase — from 60 to 64 metres — meets or exceeds all requirements. The ...

Two reviews led to changes in 2016 on how tailings ponds are regulated, and the government says the proposed dam height increase — from 60 to 64 metres — meets or exceeds all requirements.