Mount Polley Mine

Fish safe, water ban further relaxed

August 12, 2014 // 2 Comments

NEWS/ MOUNT POLLEY — Fish has been deemed safe for eating in some areas around the contamination spill from the Mount Polley Mine. The Interior Health Authority today [Continue]

Mine gets green light to divert water from lake with pipe

August 9, 2014 // 4 Comments

NEWS/ MOUNT POLLEY — Imperial Metals has been given a green light to use a discharge pipe to divert the build-up of water in Polley Lake into Hazeltine Creek. The outlet [Continue]

Mount Polley water ban partially rescinded

August 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

UPDATE/ MOUNT POLLEY (4:15 p.m. Friday) — A “do not use” water restriction around the area of the Mount Polley tailings-pond collapse has been partially [Continue]

Ginta — Tales of ponds and the physics principle we cannot escape

August 8, 2014 // 4 Comments

Daniela Ginta writes her column each Friday for The Armchair Mayor News. COLUMN — The day was heavy…I woke up to a hazy sky and had my thoughts clumped under it the whole [Continue]

Water testing results reassuring

August 7, 2014 // 2 Comments

NEWS/ MOUNT POLLEY — Preliminary test results show water in the area of the Mount Polley tailings-pond disaster is within drinking-water standards, say the Environment [Continue]