When are we going to stop allowing these mining, oil and gas companies to rape the land and leave their shit behind to foul the environment. When are we going to get serious about something other than fossil fuels for energy?
This is just another in a long line of messes that affect Nature and all of us.


http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepol...rs/#25734101=0

About 1.5 to 2 million sockeye salmon, from the great Fraser River fishery shared by the U.S. and Canada, are headed for spawning beds in the Quesnel Lake region of British Columbia this summer, where they will run into a major mine disaster.

The Monday breach of a tailings dam at the Mount Polley mine has dumped millions of liters of mine waste, with islands of debris already floating in Quesnel Lake.

The Quesnel-Horsefly river system is one of the mighty Fraser's four largest salmon producing tributaries. An estimated 500,000 salmon are already headed up the Fraser River, with the rest expected in the river by the end of August.

The exact concentration of pollutants they will encounter from Monday's disaster is not known. What is known, from Imperial Mines records, is witches brew of toxic tailings in the pond: Phosphorus, copper, Zinc, cobalt, selenium, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury.