Heat wave pushes Metro Vancouver to unprecedented water use - BC News castanet.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from castanet.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
March 12, 2021 - 7:00 AM For a province known for its stunning vistas and awe-inspiring scenery, British Columbia gets a failing grade when it comes to allowing its citizens to access it. A recent B.C. Court of Appeal decision barring the Nicola Valley Fish and Game Club from crossing private land to fish in publicly-owned lakes has grabbed national headlines, but according to many, the issue is nothing new and is widespread across the province. There continues to be dozens of lakes that are closed to people that used to be open, University of Victoria Environmental Law Centre director Calvin Sandborn told iNFOnews.ca. This is a long-standing problem.
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.
More than 100 contaminated mine sites in B C threaten water, wildlife and communities - BC News castanet.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from castanet.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.