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Originally Posted by Red_Baron
Not to make light of this but the media has really cooked up a lot of misinformation and this misinformation has the potential to do a lot of damage to the hard work many of us professional scientists in BC do every day.
The media puts out words like "mercury" or "arsenic" to incite fear and how many times have we seen the words "toxic sludge" in this thread? I've worked on many tailings dams and have done geochem samples for a few very similar alkalic porphyry mines and the numbers are very comparable to the background numbers in the native soil.
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This is a good post. I think everyone agrees this is a bad situation, but it's clear some media outlets are likely over exaggerating things (words like "catastrophe" start to be used) because it makes for a more compelling read to those who are already outraged. Stepping back and looking at this after emotions settle down a bit can make for a more accurate opinion on the subject.