Mount Polley Mine, the Canadian operation that spilled 4.5 billion gallons of water and 10.3 million cu yd of waste after a massive tailings storage pond breach in 2014, has won government permission ...

“It’s hard to deal [with] and treat something if you don’t know what it is,” Richard Holmes, fisheries biologist with Cariboo Envirotech, said in an interview at Mount Polley Mine, home to the ...

Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. She lives in Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on Twitter @amandajfollett. The view from Quesnel Lake toward Mount Polley Mine’s tailings ...

Eight years after a tailings pond disaster, critics say Imperial Metals should have come up with better waste plan by now and warn of risks. Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter ...

A lake in British Columbia likely survived a major pollution disaster when a tailings pond at the Mount Polley mine collapsed last summer, but it needs constant monitoring to track any long-term ...

When the earth barrier of the massive Mount Polley mine tailings pond gave way Monday, the flood of water and sludge took out the banks of Hazeltine Creek and a huge swath of forest in the central B.C ...

Fresh lynx tracks weave through deep powder near Quesnel Lake in British Columbia’s Cariboo Mountains. At minus 18 degrees Celsius, the morning air crystallizes our breath as Ryan, our EcoTours BC ...

A proposal by Mount Polley Mining Corp. to discharge effluent into Quesnel Lake is running into opposition from local residents who say the company is "piling on" to the pollution it has already ...

A cloud of sediment from the collapse of the tailings dam at Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley mine extends over “many” tens of square kilometres, deep below the surface of Quesnel Lake, shows research by ...

A sober second thought on the ’eco-babble’ about the mine-waste leak at Mount Polley, B.C. affecting what may be a record-breaking salmon run A spawning sockeye salmon is seen making its way up the ...

A plume of sediment deposited in Quesnel Lake by the collapse of Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley mine tailings dam is changing water quality as it shifts, according to the Interior Health Authority.

An infestation of abandoned koi is threatening rainbow trout at Dragon Lake — a popular Quesnel fishing lake. John Brisco, a Quesnel city councillor and stand-up paddle boarder, first noticed the koi ...