Note: The words glory hole and shaft in this post are terms used in the mining and oil and gas industries.
The provincial government is almost finished “remediating” the environmental contamination left from the old American Smelting and refining Company (ASARCO) mine at Buchans.
According to a news release from Tom Hedderson, tenders are due to go out on May 25 for the final phase.
Read the release and the one thing you will notice is that there’s no description of what the provincial government is actually doing to reduce the environmental risk to residents from the mine tailings and other debris from the old mine.
There’s likely a reason for that.
