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B.C.'s 'dirty secret': | Yorkton This Week


 
Updated Feb. 6, 2021, at 8:40 a.m.: this story was updated to clarify that the Bell and Granisle mines have been polluting Babine Lake  since they were operational.
 
Decades after closing, an open-pit copper mine in northwest B.C. is still  discharging wastewater with metal concentrations 250 times higher than  what’s considered safe for salmon into Babine Lake, the sockeye salmon  engine of the Skeena River watershed, according to a new report by SkeenaWild Conservation Trust and Lake Babine Nation. And the  situation at the Granisle mine one of two decommissioned mines on the  lake is indicative of what’s happening across the province.  ....

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