This is concerning. Published May 23/23 Chief Francis Laceese of Tl’esqox describes the Gibraltar mine as a “disaster waiting to happen.”
Located about 60 kilometres north of Williams Lake, B.C., it’s the fourth-largest open-pit mine in North America. Laceese’s Tsilqot’in community, Tl’esqox, is directly downstream.
The Gibraltar copper mine is among B.C.’s most polluting and high risk mines, according to a report released today by SkeenaWild Conservation Trust and BC Mining Law Reform Network.