Mine Spill In Bc

[Bruegy]

Just more proof we do not need a pebble mine in Bristol Bay.

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2014/08/06/spill-damage-likely-permanent-researcher

[ozark trout fisher]

What a loss that is. I wonder how long we as a species will continue to tolerate this kind of crap.

Mine degradation (on an only slightly less dramatic scale) is fresh on the mind right now. Where I fished in the San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado, mining is a historic and still active industry. The river I spent most of my time fishing (the Uncompahgre) was essentially devoid of trout until a dam was built a couple decades ago that filters out most of the toxin in the now-productive tailwaters. Still, in many places above the lake what should be a heartbreakingly beautiful, lively mountain stream is still essentially devoid of all life, and certainly of trout. It's the same story on so many streams in those mountains. The fact that mining so often tends to occur in such wild, beautiful, fish-filled places only heightens the importance of this issue and the tragedy of these types of occurences when they inevitably happen.

[Quillback]

Hate to see that on such a productive waterway.

[Greasy B]

Industry wins, everyone else loses.

[Mitch f]

Horrible! Imagine what a fracking gone bad would look like?