Opinion: Canada’s transboundary mine waste dams must be banned; BC’s industrialization of salmon habitat halted | Juneau Empire
If anyone doubts the risks, just consider the Mount Polley tailings disaster
There go those fish and everything thats coming upstream is dead!
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UNBC study finds rivers flowing more consistently near hydroelectric dams - My Prince George Now
A recent UNBC study looked at 500 rivers across North America to learn about hydropeaking in rivers with hydroelectric dams What is hydropeaking? Stephen Dery, Professor of Geography, Earth, and […]
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Vanishing weekly hydropeaking cycles in American and Canadian rivers - Nature Communications
Rapid sub-daily and weekly fluctuations in streamflow are known as hydropeaking. Here, the authors apply a new “weekly hydropeaking index” (WHI) to streamflow data from 500 gauges across the USA and Canada and find that the strength of WHI peaked in the mid-20th century and has been declining...
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wildmanyeah
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kinda of an odd results, not to big of a fan of the outcome.
the companies get to walk away while these few individuals get hammered.
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Exactly, WMY. These guys are given-up as sacrificial lambs and everyone else walks because if the $ was traced that went to the BC Liberal party to allow it to happen - it'd be embarrassing for someone high-up...
SpringVelocity
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Professional reliance model and example of why it doesn't work to this day. MOE and MOM will never change.
Salmon Seeker
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EGBC can only discipline their members. It was up to the gov to go after the companies
How pollution from Canadian coal mines threatens the fish at the heart of communities from B.C. to Idaho | The Narwhal
Selenium from a string of Teck Resources' mines in southeastern B.C. is projected to contaminate the transboundary watershed connecting Canada to the U.S. for centuries to come. The Narwhal travelled the route of the pollutant to hear how scientists, Indigenous leaders and conservationists are...
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B.C. has a growing mine waste problem. The risks could be catastrophic | The Narwhal
As the province permits mines to hold more tailings slurry behind ever-growing dams, a new report finds the consequences of a failure grow in step. Climate change could make things even worse
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Will BC Let Mount Polley Mine Keep Pumping Waste into Quesnel Lake? | The Tyee
Eight years after a tailings pond disaster, critics say Imperial Metals should have come up with better waste plan by now and warn of risks.
Mining risks for Pacific Northwest salmon murky due to lack of transparent data
The impact of mining on key salmon watersheds in northwestern Canada and the U.S. is impossible to gauge because of a lack of transparency and access to data, a cross-border study finds.
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An ‘open, oozing wound:’ why it’s taken decades to clean up waste from a troubled mine in B.C. | The Narwhal
The closed Tulsequah Chief mine in northwest B.C. has been leaching untreated waste into a salmon-bearing river for decades. The province may finally start cleaning it up
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Alaska Sea Grant: Research reveals water conditions increase copper toxicity for three Alaska salmon species
A major concern about mine development in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region and in many watersheds throughout Alaska is the potential for toxic waste to contaminate water and threaten world class salmon …
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International group urges review of Canadian mining impacts
Twenty-two scientists and policymakers from the United States and Canada say Canadian mining practices that threaten downstream ecosystems and fisheries.
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Researchers call for science-based policies given impacts of mining on salmon, trout
Scientists comprehensively link, for the first time, mining policy to the current understanding of watershed ecology and salmonid biology.
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Mining and Watersheds
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Pristine alpine lake contaminated by dust from mountaintop B.C. coal mines, study shows
New Alberta government research has found windblown dust from mountaintop removal coal mines in B.C. has polluted a pristine alpine lake to the point where its…
U.S. study finds Canadian mining toxin in American waters; treatment 'a small dent'
A new American study has confirmed southeastern British Columbia coal mines are contaminating waters shared by Canada and the U.S., adding the miner's attempts to remove selenium from wastewater aren't
Growth of coal mining operations in the Elk River Valley linked to increasing transport of selenium, nitrate, and sulfate into Koocanusa Reservoir | U.S. Geological Survey
The Koocanusa Reservoir (also called Lake Koocanusa) is a transboundary reservoir that's located in northwestern Montana and southwestern British Columbia, Canada (BC) and encompasses the headwaters of the Kootenai watershed, eventually flowing into the Columbia River. Coal mining has occurred...