Teck Coal fined $16M for water quality permit violations in southeastern B.C.
B.C.’s environmental enforcement branch has fined Teck Coal over $16 million for breaches of water quality permit regulations in the Elk Valley, including a failure to comply with conditions requiring a treatment facility at the Fording River South coal mine be operational by December 2018.
The province’s enforcement branch determined there was no record of Teck making a permit application to vary the requirement, despite the company saying it notified the province in August 2018 when it realized it wasn’t going to meet the December deadline. “We have been resolute and consistent in our desire to see improvements in the mine-impacted waters in the Elk Valley, and are glad to see our contributions to this review process were well-considered in the determinations.
“The Fording River Active Water Treatment Facility is now operating as planned and achieving near-complete removal of selenium from treated water,” reads the statement. “The delay in completion of this facility was necessary to implement a fix for a water treatment challenge, followed by impacts to construction due to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The company was hit with nearly $1 million for exceeding monthly and daily selenium and nitrate levels at Line Creek operations over a three-year period. A $216,000 fine was also levied for excess monthly and daily selenium and nitrate levels at the Greenhills mine on various occasions between March 2020 to February 2021.
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