[CPEO-BIF] Tulsequah Chief mine, British Columbia

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[This site is in Canada, but it impacts water flowing through Southeast
Alaska. - LS]

Regulators order Tulsequah Chief cleanup
ACID LEAKAGE: Company insolvent; plans to redevelop site have been shelved.

The Associated Press
Anchnorage Daily News (AK)
May 29, 2009


JUNEAU -- A mining company has been ordered to clean up a former mine 45
miles northeast of Juneau that had been targeted for redevelopment.

Redcorp Ventures Ltd. and a subsidiary, Redfern Resources, had planned
to clean up acid leaking from the 1950s-era Tulsequah Chief mine as it
redeveloped the site.

The company is now insolvent and redevelopment has been halted but
regulators in Canada have ordered Redcorp to clean up the acid.

Canadian federal regulators since 1990 have known that water samples
from the mine's drainage were toxic to fish.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.adn.com/money/industries/mining/story/813098.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org




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