Mike Allison is in the United States capital as part of a tribal delegation from across the Pacific Northwest. Their goal is an alliance with Congress and the Biden administration they hope will pressure Ottawa into a bipartisan effort to confront toxic mining runoff they say is poisoning their waters.
In a city of pinstripes and partisan power brokers, Mike Allison sticks out like a sore thumb. He's in the wrong place -- and he knows it.
Their goal is an alliance with Congress and the Biden administration they hope will pressure Ottawa into a bipartisan effort to confront toxic mining runoff from north of the Canada-U.S. border they say is poisoning their waters. Teck describes the plan as "among the largest and most collaborative water quality management and monitoring programs in the world," alongside water treatment and mitigation efforts the company says have already proven effective.
"We acknowledge that Teck is trying to keep the water clean after they use it when they're processing metallurgic coal, but they're not willing to share their data," Janssen said. The delegation met in D.C. last week with Democrat and Republican lawmakers from Alaska, Washington and Montana, as well as officials from the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Officials in the Canadian Embassy would only say their meeting with the delegation Wednesday involved "a constructive discussion about mining impacts" and they "look forward to continuing this engagement." The federal government is developing regulations under the Fisheries Act in an effort to mitigate the potential impact of mining effluent, said Samantha Bayard, a spokesperson for Environment and Climate Change Canada.
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