#Tailingsdams are becoming unstable, with devastating consequences for nature & humans. Rivers are poisoned with acid/heavy metals; fish are dying. Drinking water no longer available Activists are being sued by mining companies

Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst? — Guardian US While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans

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BC Halts Plans to Make Polluters Pay for Cleanup Costs | The Tyee The province billed its Public Interest Bonding Strategy as a key step to protect the public from massive cleanup bills. Now it’s on hold.

Good journalism matters on issues like this — it holds governments and industries accountable, and ensures communities know who’s responsible when disasters strike.

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#BHP said in a presentation...that four #tailingsdams in Australia and one in the US were ranked at the highest level of risk, and had the potential to cause serious damage to the local environment and cause scores of deaths in the case of a...