Spring thaw may threaten Mount Polley tailings-pond cleanup, minister warns

“The scale of the initial disaster is tremendous,” she said. “Full remediation is going to be a matter of years, not months.”
Steve Robertson, spokesman for Imperial Metals, said the company hopes to repair the breach in the dam in the coming months in order to contain the coming spring runoff.
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