Government secrecy thwarts coverage of spill at B.C. mine

Without access to inspection reports, journalists can’t report what really happened at Mount Polley

By Cormac McGee Out at the Mount Polley mine site in south-central British Columbia in mid-September 2014, Gordon Hoekstra found himself with a few hours to kill before his flight back to Vancouver. The mine’s dammed tailings pond—which holds fine rock particles left over after the ore is extracted—had breached a few weeks earlier on […]