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SkeenaWild executive director Greg Knox said he and his team spent four months compiling the data from limited ministry documents, mining company websites and interviews, and environmental assessment reports. “The information on the map was challenging to uncover,” Knox said. “How can we begin to investigate these potentially mine-damaged waters and monitor the extent of the pollution, when the information is not even available to the public?” The map features 173 large coal or metal mines either closed, abandoned, or active, but excludes 130 sites currently in the exploration stage. Of those studied, only two sites pose no water contamination threat, according to the research, while 116 have already contaminated the surrounding environment or have the potential to do so. Knox said 55 of the sites had no publicly-available information about contamination risk. ....
What is Pacific Northern Gas? Pacific Northern Gas is a natural gas company that operates one pipeline in northwest B.C., serving over 40,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers along the Highway 16 corridor. The Western Transmission Gas Line connects to an Enbridge pipeline at Summit Lake, near Prince George, which gets its gas from sources in the northeast, and terminates in Prince Rupert and Kitimat. It has been operating at reduced capacity since losing a few of its major industrial customers over the past 20 years Prince Rupert’s pulp mill shut down in 2001, Kitimat’s methanol and ammonia facility followed in 2005 and the Kitimat pulp and paper mill closed its doors in 2010. ....
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