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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
For the completely ignorant, how come the waters have to get polluted? In the process there is literally no way to operate a coal mine without polluting the water? Seems very weird to me. I’m presuming it’s sort of like the oilsands where the water’s used in operations and cannot be cleaned after the fact or something?
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The issues is that the historical record for mineral extraction companies with respect to stewardship after their finished harvesting is very poor.
How are we to expect that "this time will be different".
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north...date-1.7462471
https://thenarwhal.ca/for-decades-b-...ow-to-stop-it/
https://theweek.com/environment/the-...s-toxic-legacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan...lberta,_Canada