B.C. New Democrats say citizens living near the Mount Polley disaster are facing fall rains and winter setting in without even knowing what the plans are for the massive cleanup effort that is needed
“The scale is hard to imagine,” wrote Peter Moskowitz at Vice.com, “…gray sludge, several feet deep, gushing with the force of a fire hose through streams and forest—coating everything in its path with ashy gunk. What happened on [August 4, 2014] might have been one of North America’s worst environmental disasters in decades, yet the news barely made it past the Canadian border.”
A breach in the Mount Polley mine tailings dam released water and mine tailings into pristine Quesnel Lake. The spill has been called one of the biggest environmental disasters in modern Canadian history. But now, it seems, just over a month later, that news about Mount Polley is barely making it to British Columbians, let alone any farther.
