The ApocaDocs Logo: the Deaths-head Jester

About:
[The Project]
[The ApocaDocs]
[Equal Share]
The Six Scenarios:
[Species Collapse]
[Infectious Disease]
[Climate Chaos]
[Resource Depletion]
[Biology Breach]
[Recovery]
Explore:

Play:

It's weekly, funny, and free!

SEARCH

More than 6,000 stories!

A great gift
for crisis deniers!


The ApocaDocs have a Book!
Humoring the Horror of the
Converging Emergencies
94 color pages
$24.99 now $15!
Or read FREE online!




Twitter




Ping this story
in social media:
del.icio.us
Digg
Newsvine
NowPublic
Reddit
Facebook
StumbleUpon

Posted Thu Aug 7 2014: from CBC:
Tailings pond breach in BC threatens pristine deepwater lake system, sockeye salmon; state of emergency declared http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1407373560
A local state of emergency has been declared in an area where a B.C. tailings pond wall collapsed, sending millions of cubic metres of mine waste water and metals-laden sand into local waterways.... The breach sent 10 million cubic metres of water and 4.5 million cubic metres of metals-laden sand out into local waterways, scouring away the banks of Hazeltine Creek and sending debris flowing into Quesnel Lake and Polley Lake, which rose 1.5 metres.... A summary of the material dumped into the tailings pond last year was filed with Environment Canada. It said there was 326 tonnes of nickel, over 400,000 kilograms of arsenic, 177,000 kilograms of lead and 18,400 tonnes of copper and its compounds placed in the pond last year.
[Read more stories about: toxic leak, toxic water, heavy metals, contamination]

New!:
No reader quips yet -- be the first!

Got a PaniQuip?

Your Quip (limit 140 characters, no links, just wit):

First name:

The text shown in the Web image to the right:


We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

'Doc Jim says:
That was last year. Old news. What's done is done, so let's just move forward in trying to reestablish trust.

NEXT>
More stories:
  • Goals for carbon reduction become law in Eugene
  • GVSU's MAREC incubator develops commercial-scale solar technology
  • (Tailings pond breach in BC threatens pristine deepwater lake system, sockeye salmon; state of emergency declared)
  • The Pricing of Everything
  • Scientists may have cracked the giant Siberian crater mystery -- and the news isn't good

  • Want to explore more?
    Try the PaniCloud!
    Copyright 2010 The Apocadocs.com