About 20 miles from the Alaska border, the Tulsequah Chief Mine extracted zinc, copper and lead in the 1950s. Ever since, rusty, acidic runoff from tunnels and waste rock has flowed into a tributary of the Taku River, a major salmon-producing waterway.
the last three summers, environmental groups say the end of receivership will allow the provincial government to take responsibility for the site and start a more substantial cleanup process.“I think B.C. sees this as a black mark and they definitely want to get rid of it and prove they can do the job right here,” said Chris Zimmer, with Rivers Without Borders, an environmental watchdog group in Juneau that follows transboundary mining activity.
“The B.C. government for a couple years has been saying that this bankruptcy has hindered them, has tied their hands, has limited their abilities to actually get in there and physically cleanup up the mine and shut it down,” Zimmer said.An official with British Columbia’s Mines Division says that’s expected to happen this fall.“It’s going to take a bit of time, certainly, to get the clean up together and deal with the engineering challenges,” he said. “So, we’re hoping to see B.C.
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