A faulty tailings dam at the B.C. mine dumped billions of litres of waste into the environment — and Quesnel Lake is still contaminated. Now Imperial Metals wants to expand the same dam

Shannon Waters, The Narwhal

It was a Monday morning and the sun had just begun to rise when Doug Watt received an alarming phone call from his local fire and rescue department on Aug. 4, 2014.

A tailings pond dam at Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley mine in B.C.’s Interior had failed, releasing 25 billion litres of toxic sludge into Polley Lake, Hazeltine Creek and Quesnel Lake, where Watt’s small community of Likely stretches along the shore.

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