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TV News Story - BC tailings pond leaking toxins

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

This is a TV news story about the tailings pond dam failure at Imperial Metals' Mount Polley Mine in British Columbia, Canada. The Wilderness Committee's Policy Director, Gwen Barlee is interviewed.

 

Activists working to protect wild lands and waters from mining in Clayoquot Sound, Fish Lake, Manning Park and the Transboundary Watersheds are watching this disaster closely.

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