Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites

[adaminc]

Personally I think this is a disgusting misuse of power, I think there need to be some firings up in Ottawa, or wherever these people work.


http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/16/condemned-lakes.html?ref=rss

 

[DBA]

Canada has a lot of lakes, Atlas Of Canada:Lakes and I guess it's easier to contain an existing body of water than to contain an artificial tailings pond. What I am not sure about is don't tailings ponds usually have some form of liner on the bottom and how an equivalent would be done for an existing lake.

 

[Blindspot]

Personally I think this is a disgusting misuse of power, I think there need to be some firings up in Ottawa, or wherever these people work.


http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/16/condemned-lakes.html?ref=rss

Well then, I hope you're ready to go back to living off the land. Turn in that neat IPod, stop driving around and get off the computer now. Stop flushing you and your pet's waste, detergent, chemicals down the toilet. In fact, just get out of the city now! Don't wait. If everyone leaves - oh hell I don't know - *throws dart at map of Ontario* -> "Milford" - that disgusting, environmental cesspool, equivalent to sixteen tailponds will disappear. Fire all of them. There's way too many cities and towns full of disgusting unenvironmentally friendly humans!

 

[adaminc]

These are natural freshwater lakes, some are attached to rivers, they aren't your regular tailing ponds, as DBA has suggested, which are lined at the bottoms, so whatever they throw into these lakes will infact go into the ground water. This is just as bad as the USA letting BP dump into Lake Michigan.

I have no problem with mining companies dumping their waste into properly created and maintained tailing ponds. But I do have a problem with them dumping into fresh water lakes. There is no need for it, mining companies buy up all this land, and they should have to use some of it to hold their own waste.

 

[old medic]

That was the stupidest article of the day.
That's been going on in Canada forever.  I am a short drive from a tailings pond (former river) that was created
in 1966. 

Fisheries Act of 2002 and the brain dead commentators blame the conservatives ?

There is no need for it, mining companies buy up all this land, and they should have to use some of it to hold their own waste.

And you should study up on the meanings of "mining claim" and "surface rights" before posting.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Nothing new. Just CBC's attempt to show the sitting government in a bad light (again), and try and make them take ownership for something that has been going on for years. :

 

[retiredgrunt45]

Nothing new. Just CBC's attempt to show the sitting government in a bad light (again), and try and make them take ownership for something that has been going on for years.

Well maybe is high time the current sitting government changes the mistakes of its predecessors, instead of continuing on with the "Oh its been done that way for years" attitude. It seems that when big business talks, our government(s) and politicians "past and present" conveniently lose their voices and its business as usuall. I just wish for once that our elected officials would have some backbone once in a while to stand up  and say, hey this is wrong and we have to change it. But again dreams have a way of turning into fantasies and fantasies seldom come true.

 

[GAP]

Well maybe is high time the current sitting government changes the mistakes of its predecessors, instead of continuing on with the "Oh its been done that way for years" attitude. It seems that when big business talks, our government(s) and politicians "past and present" conveniently lose their voices and its business as usuall. I just wish for once that our elected officials would have some backbone once in a while to stand up  and say, hey this is wrong and we have to change it. But again dreams have a way of turning into fantasies and fantasies seldom come true.

All this during a minority government....ok

 

[civmick]

Well maybe is high time the current sitting government changes the mistakes of its predecessors, instead of continuing on with the "Oh its been done that way for years" attitude.

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