YET ANOTHER INEVITABLE TOXIC SPILL

This time it's in British Columbia as a tailings pond breached its' walls and discharged 4.5 million cubic metres of toxic silt into Polley Lake and Quesnel Lake. According to today's Woolwich Observer Editorial titled "Inevitable spills of mining toxins demand oversight"; both the company and the B.C. Environment Ministry had been warned for years about the risk of such a breach. The B.C. Environment Ministry of course are now all over the issue, after the fact. According to yesterday's Waterloo Region Record's article titled "B.C. mine boss apologizes for spill"; the Ministry are issuing Orders such as stopping discharges, making cleanup plans and they must undergo an environmental assessment. Nice to see that Environment Ministrys are the same everywhere isn't it? They ignore hazards that they have the legislative power to mitigate and then after the fact it's a blizzard of paperwork as if that will heal the earth and the water.