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August 8, 2014

Canada: Metal-Laden Silt Floods Waterways After Mine Spill 
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In Canada, First Nations leaders are calling for immediate action to
clean up a massive spill at a copper and gold mine, saying it is one of
British Columbia's worst environmental disasters. The rupture of a
tailings pond at Imperial Metals' Mount Polley mine spilled more than a
billion gallons of silt laden with metals into area waterways.

 

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