The smelter has been in operation under various ownership since 1896. Last year, the Vancouver-based mining giant admitted in another lawsuit brought by the Colville Confederated Tribes that effluent from the smelter polluted the Columbia River in Washington for more than a century. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency eventually joined that lawsuit and wants Teck to pay the estimated $1-billion cost of cleaning up the contamination. The latest lawsuit claims that between 1930 and 1995, the smelter discharged into the Columbia River at least 9 million tonnes of slag containing zinc, lead, copper, arsenic cadmium, barium, antimony, chromium, cobalt, manganese, nickel, selenium and titanium. “This discharge was intentional and made with knowledge that the waste slag contained metals,” says the complaint. WHEN WILL WE START PUSHING COMINCO TO CLEAN UP THEIR GOD DAMNED ACT??? CALL TECH COMINCO SPOKESMAN RICHARD DEANE @ 250 364 8779 AND CELL 250 364 4118
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:36:06 +0000
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