Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites

[bananas]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/16/condemned-lakes.html

Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites
Lakes are in B.C., Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, NWT and Nunavut
Last Updated: Monday, June 16, 2008 | 9:42 PM ET
By Terry Milewski, CBC News


Bush pilot Doug Beaumont and environmentalist Jim Bourquin fish on Kluela Lake, downstream from the planned dump site for the Red Chris gold and copper mining project in northwestern B.C. (Terry Milewski/CBC)

CBC News has learned that 16 Canadian lakes are slated to be officially but quietly "reclassified" as toxic dump sites for mines. The lakes include prime wilderness fishing lakes from B.C. to Newfoundland.

Environmentalists say the process amounts to a "hidden subsidy" to mining companies, allowing them to get around laws against the destruction of fish habitat.

Under the Fisheries Act, it's illegal to put harmful substances into fish-bearing waters. But, under a little-known subsection known as Schedule Two of the mining effluent regulations, federal bureaucrats can redefine lakes as "tailings impoundment areas."

That means mining companies don't need to build containment ponds for toxic mine tailings.

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[tom_paine]

1. Imperial Amerika is dragging Free Canada down, in more ways than one.

This is just one. And for all you Canadians out there, reveling in your freedom compared to the subjects of Empire to your south, BEWARE. No Empire could long afford to exist next door to a free nation.

As time goes by and the mask futher comes off Imperial Amerika (unless we restore the Old American Republic, which is not very likely, though still possible) and it becomes obvious even to the Sheeple, the freedom of Canada will become a terrible danger to Emperor Goerge P. Bush or whoever sits on the throne at that time.

My point is: Canadians BEWARE. Our Imperial Aristocrats are coming for YOU and your resources. They are coming for your freedom, that which separates you from the subjects to your south.

In the long-run, you are as safe as Poland, France or any other of the nations bordering Bushie Germany of the 1930s, even though Amerika is likely to be gentler in it's methods for enslaving you than the German Bushies were in the 30s and 40s for the free nations that bordered THEM.