Downstream: Stories from BC’s Mount Polley Mining Disaster 12 Years On
Tour dates:
Time: 6:30 pm
Where: Maqiyahtimok Centre, 247 Maliseet Drive, Fredericton
STANLEY
When: Tuesday, October 6
Time: 7 – 8:30 pm
Where: Stanley Consolidated School (Cafeteria), 28 Bridge Street, Stanley
FREDERICTON
When: Thursday, October 8
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Where: Wilmot United Church (Gymnasium), 473 King Street, Fredericton, NB
In 2014, BC experienced the largest mining disaster in Canadian history, when the Mount Polley Mine tailings dam collapsed, dumping 25 million cubic meters of wastewater and heavy metal-laden tailings into Quesnel Lake and surrounding waterways. The collapse, caused by a foundation failure, devastated local ecosystems and communities.
The proposed Sisson Mine in New Brunswick would have a tailings dam ten times larger than Mount Polley’s. It would be located at the head of the Nashwaak Watershed, which flows directly into Wolastoq in Fredericton (upstream of one-third of the province’s population).
The Stop Sisson Mine Coalition is thrilled to host Nuskmata (Jacinda Mack) from the Secwepemc Nation in BC to talk about her first-hand experience living downstream from the Mount Polley Mine Tailings Disaster and how mining in their territory has changed the land, waters, and her community.
