Mount Polley

The need to store and manage mine tailings — the waste created by grinding up and processing ore — is modern mining’s greatest environmental liability and long-term expense.

The leader of the BC Green Party says that provincial and municipal officials' slow response to a late January "incident" at a Vancouver-area refinery that smothered parts of Metro Vancouver in a hydrocarbon haze is cause for concern.  

Three engineers have been disciplined nearly eight years after one of Canada's worst mining catastrophes.

People are swimming and fishing in Quesnel Lake five years after the largest environmental mining disaster in Canadian history, but residents of Likely, B.C., are still struggling with unresolved emotions about what happened and who will be held accountable for the dam collapse at the Mount Polley mine.

There will be no provincial charges for a tailings dam collapse in B.C. but the province’s new environment minister says a mining company may still be held responsible through federal laws.

Kinder Morgan Canada and other companies are working to keep some of the more than 200 wildfires burning across B.C. away from their infrastructure.

Protesters stormed the space where the Imperial Metals' investors were meeting, to express their outrage over the Mount Polley tailings spill.

The tailings pond collapse at British Columbia's Mount Polley mine almost three years ago shook the world's mining industry, says the province's mines minister.

The group is in Ottawa this week seeking to enlist federal help in stopping B.C. copper and gold mines from polluting the headwaters of key salmon rivers that flow from Canada into Alaska.

Residents of Haines, Alaska are trying to stop a Vancouver company from developing a mine upstream from a world-renowned bald eagle preserve

The coalition plans to tour the Mount Polley site where the tailings dam gave way last August