Alaska Senators push State Dept. for more oversight of tailing dams on transboundry rivers
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] August 14, 2014
The Mount Polley mine tailings disaster in British Columbia has both Alaska Senators urging the US State department for more oversight with mines on trans-boundary rivers. In letters to Secretary John Kerry, both specifically referenced the KSM Mine being built less than 20 miles from Southeast Alaska’s border.
It’s three times larger than Mount Polley and could affect the Taku, Unuk and Stikine Rivers. Senators Murkowski and Begich urged a bilateral Panel Review on KSM and other planned mines, and accelerated US oversight before the BC projects are finally approved...
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