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Nation files an emergency injunction filed over raising B.C. gold mine's tailings dam
- The Xatsull First Nation filed a legal challenge in British Columbia court earlier this month.
- This action challenges a government plan allowing the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam.
- The nation seeks an urgent emergency injunction to pause construction on the dam.
- Imperial Metals president Brian Kynoch said the company would not hold off on construction.
- The British Columbia Supreme Court will hear the nation's case in early May.
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The Hamilton Spectator+2 Reposted by 2 other sources
Nation files an emergency injunction filed over raising B.C. gold mine’s tailings dam
VANCOUVER - A B.C. First Nation that is going to court to try to stop a mining company from raising its tailings dam is now applying for an emergency injunction to put the construction on hold.
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Nation files an emergency injunction filed over raising B.C. gold mine's tailings dam
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Nation files an emergency injunction filed over raising B.C. gold mine's tailings dam – Energeticcity.ca
VANCOUVER — A B.C. First Nation that is going to court to try to stop a mining company from raising its tailings dam is now applying for an emergency injunction to put the construction on hold. The Xatsull nation announced earlier this month that it had filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its dam, a decade after a similar storage site at the mine collapsed, setting off an environmental disaster in the na…
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