It’s not often that a large company comes clean, so to speak, and admits to having caused pollution. But that’s exactly what Teck Resources Limited, a Canadian metals and mining company based in Vancouver, has just done.
The Company “has admitted that mining waste and effluent from its Trail smelter polluted the Columbia River across the U.S.-Canada border in Washington State,” reports the Edmonton Journal. “Its subsidiary, Teck Metals Ltd., agreed to these facts as part of a civil lawsuit with U.S. plaintiffs.”
They add, “The Teck Metals agreement released Monday acknowledges some portion of the effluent and slag from its Trail operations in southeastern B.C. were transported and present in the UpperColumbia River in the U.S., and that some hazardous substances were released into the environment in the U.S.”
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