Research findings on the Mount Polley Mine tailings pond breach last summer will be the topic of a free talk coming up March 17 at the Scout Island Nature Centre.
The talk starts at 7 p.m. when Sam Albers, the University of Northern B.C’s Quesnel River Research Centre manager, will summarize research the centre has been engaged in since the Mount Polley Mine tailings impoundment ruptured on Aug. 4, 2014 discharging approximately 25 million cubic metres of tailings and waste-waters to downstream surface waters.
Since the spill researchers have been engaged in looking at potential impacts of the tailings pond breach on the Quesnel Lake system which represents some of British Columbia’s most important sockeye salmon habitat.