Mount Polley

Regulator Fines Engineers 8 Years After Mount Polley Disaster in BC

Three engineers have been disciplined nearly eight years after one of Canada's worst mining catastrophes. Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia, a provincial regulatory and licensing body, said in a statement ...

March 14, 2022BY The Canadian Press
One Year Later, BC Must Heed Mount Polley Disaster’s Lessons

It was a dramatic image: millions of cubic metres of waste cascading from the Mount Polley mine breach ...

August 16, 2015BY David Suzuki
Groups Urge Action to Avoid Mine Disasters Like Mount Polley

More than 50 organizations are calling on provincial energy ministers to implement the recommendations of an independent report ...

July 22, 2015BY Kaven Baker-Voakes
Mount Polley’s Owner Served With Search Warrants

The B.C. Conservation Service has searched two offices of the company that owns the Mount Polley mine as ...

February 5, 2015BY The Canadian Press