Submitted by Wildsight Kootenay residents are concerned they’ll be left to cover the cost of environmental damage caused by local industry, new polling reveals, as…
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IJC asked to help form plan for transboundary pollution
The ongoing struggle to establish a transboundary plan to deal with pollution in the Elk and Kootenay/Kootenai river watershed today (March 11) reached a positive…
Collective agreements reached at Fording River and Elkview
Teck Resources Ltd. announced today that about 1,900 unionized employees at two of its Elk Valley coal mines have ratified new six-year collective agreements Fording…
B.C. stalls on selenium pollution limit for Koocanusa
B.C. is delaying adoption of a shared selenium pollution limit with Montana for Lake Koocanusa, drawing questions from East Kootenay conservation group Wildsight. The province…
US senators ask B.C. to clean-up mine water pollution
Wildsight June 14 pointed out “all eight US senators representing B.C.’s neighbouring states (Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska) have joined together in an unprecedented bipartisan…
Water pollution issues remain in Elk Valley: Wildsight
Regional environmental watchdog Wildsight says it is right that Teck Resources pays a $1.425 million fine in relation to charges under the Fisheries Act relating…