...Mine while it secures funds. The company said cost overruns precipitated the shut down.The mine is located on the Tulsequah River near where it connects with the Taku River, approximately 40 mile northeast of Juneau on the British Columbia side...
...Cominco in the 1950's. The mine site is on the Tulsequah River, the main tributary to the Taku River, upriver of...heavy metals, is probably once again flowing into the Tulsequah River. Previous inspections have found the discharge to...
...Assessment process until Chieftain produced a working feasibility study and restarted a water treatment facility on the Tulsequah River.Chieftain had said the Taku Tlingit's actions would not affect the company's efforts to proceed with the mine's...
...lead, zinc, cadmium and arsenic per year into the Tulsequah River. Federal regulators originally ordered Redfern...tailings into a large impoundment in a flood plain of the Tulsequah River, a tributary of the Taku River. Gillnet fishermen...
...treat all the water passing through the site. The treated water will be piped and discharged into the sediment of the Tulsequah River, he said. Mining frenzy? Several mining companies have begun to explore areas near the proposed Redfern site...
...mine. Since it closed in the late 1950s, the mine has been leaching acid mine drainage pollution directly into the Tulsequah River and thus into the Taku. Neither B.C. nor Redfern has made any attempts to stop this. The mine and its tailings...
...ice dam on a glacial lake encompassed by the Tulsequah Glacier. The ice dam began dissolving on Wednesday into the Tulsequah River, which flows into the Taku near the Canadian border. Because water levels in the Taku rose two feet in a 24-hour...
...How would these families benefit from a Canadian mine? Reopening a mine that has been leaking acid waste into the Tulsequah River and down to the Taku itself for 50 years would directly threaten Taku salmon and Alaskans dependent on this resource...
...proposed multi-metal mine in the Taku River watershed, which includes a mixing zone for wastewater discharges to the Tulsequah River. The Environmental Protection Agency, Juneau city officials and state legislators are protesting the Canadian government's...
...Tulsequah Chief mine continues to leach acid and heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, copper and zinc into the Taku and Tulsequah Rivers in amounts exceeding Alaska's water quality standards and in levels that can harm fish populations. If the province...
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