An infestation of abandoned koi is threatening rainbow trout at Dragon Lake — a popular Quesnel fishing lake. John Brisco, a Quesnel city councillor and stand-up paddle boarder, first noticed the koi ...

Mount Polley Mine, the Canadian operation that spilled 4.5 billion gallons of water and 10.3 million cu yd of waste after a massive tailings storage pond breach in 2014, has won government permission ...

Nearly eight years after the largest tailings spill into a lake ever recorded, impacts of the Mount Polley Mine disaster in central B.C. are still being observed. While most of the contaminated solids ...

Effluent from the Mount Polley mine is again flowing into Quesnel Lake in South-Central British Columbia nearly two years after a catastrophic tailings pond breach caused one of the worst mining ...

Aerial view of the Mount Polley mine tailings spill (Photo courtesy Cariboo Regional District) QUESNEL, British Columbia, Canada, August 8, 2014 (ENS) – A tailings pond breach at the Mount Polley ...

A cloud of sediment from the collapse of the tailings dam at Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley gold and copper mine extends over an area many tens of square kilometres deep below the surface of Quesnel ...

Six years after the Mount Polley gold and copper mine dam collapse sent millions of cubic metres of tailings into Quesnel Lake, academic research shows there are effects on the lake environment.

Natural mixing of lake waters may re-suspend contaminants deposited in a catastrophic mine spill six years ago, according to a new article. Natural mixing of lake waters may resuspend contaminants ...

Veteran Victoria-based journalist Tom Hawthorn is a frequent contributor to The Tyee. Read his previous pieces for The Tyee here. Northern Light Lodge owners Skeed and Sharon Borkowski were preparing ...