Revised Fording River mine expansion still poses risks | East Kootenay, Elk Valley, Ktunaxa Nation

Revised Fording River mine expansion still poses risks | East Kootenay, Elk Valley, Ktunaxa Nation

Submitted by Wildsight Bighorn sheep, grizzly bears and native fish populations would suffer if a proposal to expand British Columbia’s biggest coal mine by over a third of its current size is approved, says Wildsight. Located in the southern Rockies, within ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa, the territory of the Ktunaxa Nation, Fording River Operations is one of four steelmaking coal mines currently at the centre of an international water pollution investigatio…