Showing posts with label coal mine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coal mine. Show all posts
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Chuitna - More Than Salmon On The Line
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#flyfishing | #KeepEmWet | #Chuitna
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Elk Valley watershed: Why has this unfolding disaster been ignored?
Elk Valley watershed: Why has this unfolding disaster been ignored?
Mark Hume, VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail, Sunday, Oct. 19 2014
..selenium pollution has reached levels that threaten a total population collapse of westslope cutthroat trout. Those fish are high up the aquatic food chain, so if they are on the edge, other aquatic life are too...
Monday, November 18, 2013
Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer Confirms Toxic Water Contamination From Massive Coal Slurry Spill
Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer Confirms Toxic Water Contamination From Massive Coal Slurry Spill
Donna Lisenby | November 14, 2013
Thank goodness for Dr. James Talbot, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health. After 14 days of stonewalling by the Alberta Government, he released some of the water test results from the gigantic 1 billion litre coal slurry spill into the Athabasca River from the Obed Mountain coal mine near Hinton, Alberta.
Read more here: http://bit.ly/1aavNE3
Friday, November 15, 2013
Time for Alberta to come clean about environmental accidents
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| Pictures of a
100 km long leak of coal mine sludge, making its way down the Athabasca
River. This picture taken Nov. 3, near the confluence of the Plante and
Athabasca rivers. One billion litres of sludge leaked from the closed
Obed Mountain Mine near Hinton on Oct. 31. Photograph by: Supplied , Alberta Environment |
Time for Alberta to come clean about environmental accidents
By Paula Simons, Edmonton Journal November 14, 2013
EDMONTON - Mercury levels nine times higher than normal.
Levels of cancer-causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons four times the allowed standard for Canadian drinking water.
Those are the kinds of disturbing test results Dr. James Talbot, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, is seeing as he monitors a huge plume of coal mine waste water currently oozing down the Athabasca River.
“Our overriding concern is the safety of the drinking water,” says Talbot. “We’re advising people, ‘Don’t draw water as the plume is going by.’ ”
Read story here: http://bit.ly/1cWmNG5
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Calgary coal mining firm disputes land use plan
Calgary coal mining firm disputes land use plan
By Amanda Stephenson, Calgary Herald October 29, 2013
A Calgary company wanting to bring coal mining back to the Alberta side of the Crowsnest Pass is raising serious concerns about a new draft land use plan for southern Alberta.
Altitude Resources Inc. said it will express its fears about the proposed South Saskatchewan Regional Plan at upcoming public consultation sessions.
Read story here: http://bit.ly/1dw0uEg
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