B.C. judge grants injunction in legal battle over tailings dam at Mount Polley mine
Contents from a tailings pond is pictured going into Quesnel Lake near the town of Likely, B.C., on August, 5, 2014. It's been about a decade since millions of cubic metres of mine waste gushed from a tailings pond at the Mount Polley mine in British Columbia's Interior. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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