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'Wrecked forever': Unique geological formation near Yellowknife almost gone
CBC News   01 October 2019   Canada   Yellowknife  
NWT Archives/Terry Foster fonds
<p>The area, described as recently as 2004 in a Yellowknifer newspaper article as "a wide open area full of dunes, ponds and weathered rocks," is no longer anything of the sort.<br />Instead, it's a flattened-out and largely hard-packed surface. There are ...
Mount Polley mine disaster 5 years later; emotions, accountability unresolved
CBC News   05 August 2019   British Columbia   Quesnel Lake  
Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press
<p>People are swimming and fishing in Quesnel Lake five years after the largest environmental mining disaster in Canadian history, but residents of Likely, B.C., are still struggling with unresolved emotions about what happened and who will be held accountable ...
Mining company working with environmentalists to clean up old mining sites
CBC News   20 February 2018   Canada   British Columbia  
This aerial shot shows the tailings pile that Margaux hopes will bring them economic benefit even as it helps clean it up. (Nick Diamond/provided)
<p>Calgary-based mining company Margaux Resources has announced a plan to clean up old tailings sites by using new mining technologies to extract the remaining minerals.</p> <p>Margaux has partnered with the Salmo Watershed Sreamkeepers Society &mdash; a non-profit ...
Filed under: Mining News
More than 140 people missing after Taiwan earthquake
CBC News   06 February 2018   Taiwan   Hualien  
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, centre back-facing, is briefed Wednesday at the site of a collapsed building from an earthquake in Hualien, southeastern Taiwan. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)
<p>A rescue crew on Wednesday was trying to free two people from a hotel whose ground floor caved after a strong earthquake hit near Taiwan's east coast and killed at least four people.</p> <p>The shallow, magnitude-6.4 quake that struck late Tuesday night ...
Filed under: Natural Hazards
Emergency operation centre opened in Nanaimo after flooding, landslide
CBC News   29 January 2018   Canada   Vancouver Island  
A massive hole on Melrose Road in Whiskey Creek, a community located north of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. (Oliver Watson)
<p>An emergency operation centre has opened in the Regional District of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island after a landslide occurred in Lantzville and flooding hit Parksville and Whiskey Creek.</p> <p>On Sunday night Nanaimo Search and Rescue responded to several ...
Landslide halts Amtrak train service between Seattle and Vancouver
CBC News   31 March 2017   United States, Canada   Americas  
A landslide on the rail tracks in South Surrey, B.C., captured by a nearby resident. (Erik Seiz)
<p>A landslide in South Surrey, B.C., has shut down Amtrak train service between Vancouver and Seattle.</p> <p>Amtrak said BNSF, which owns the railway, has suspended passenger railway traffic on the tracks until Friday, March 31. Amtrak said it is providing ...