Heavy equipment operates at an open-pit coal mine in B.C., just west of the Alberta border. The Alberta government has rescinded a 44-year-old policy that restricted similar mines in large swaths of the Rocky Mountains and Foothills.
Heavy equipment operates at an open-pit coal mine in B.C., just west of the Alberta border. Teck Coal has been embroiled in legal and political battles over environmental concerns for cross-border bodies of water. The cost of removing a contaminant toxic to fish after decades of coal mining in British Columbia's Elk Valley is more than three times what the company has set aside for the work, says an independent consultant's report.
Teck operates five steelmaking coal mines in the Elk Valley of southeastern B.C., where coal has been mined for decades. Those coal deposits are associated with selenium, an element that inhibits the ability of fish to reproduce. Teck has spent $1.4 billion on water treatment. Spokesman Maclean Kay said in an email the company has quadrupled its treatment capacity from 2020 and plans to spend at least another $150 million this year.
" major reclamation costs have yet to be incurred by Teck and are not included in the cost estimate for selenium remediation," it says.
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