Teck Coal faces new pollution violation charges
Fog rising from the Kootenai River. This photo was taken from the Katka overlook at sunrise looking west toward Bonners Ferry and the Selkirk Mountains.
Photo by DON BARTLING
British Columbia’s Teck Coal Limited is facing more charges it polluted two tributaries of the Elk River.
According to a press release from Environment and Climate Change Canada Enforcement, it filed five charges against Teck on July 10 for violating the Fisheries Act. The Elk River feeds Lake Koocanusa and the Kootenai River in Montana.
The Kootenai Tribe is among those who have called on Canadian officials to address the impact of industrial mining on waterways in historic tribal lands and condemned the governments of Canada and British Columbia for “allowing the mining industry to lay waste to Indigenous territory.”
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