Northport, Washington
March 5, 2024 Updated Tue., March 5, 2024 at 10:10 p.m. The Cominco smelter complex sits above the Columbia River in Trail, B.C., on June 5, 2009. Some complain that metals from the smelter in the river have caused illnesses south of Canada border. (JESSE TINSLEY/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW) By James Hanlon jamesh@spokesman.com The Environmental Protection Agency wants... Continue Reading →
In the 176 pages of the EPA’s Final Site-Wide Human Health Risk Assessment, published on February 10, 2021, the EPA found that the risk we are in is, basically, uncertain.
Teck’s air emissions have poisoned over three generations of Northport residents. The amount of people being diagnosed with specific health issues hasn't gotten better, so how is it that the EPA believes Teck that the level of toxins in their air emission have?
Teck Smelter Timeline of Pollution - A Century of Evidence
TRAIL, B.C. - On a beach in northeast Washington state near the Canadian border, Patti Bailey grabs a handful of what looks like sand and rolls the dark grains through her hands. It's slag, the grainy waste from the Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) lead and zinc smelter in Trail, B.C., about 10 kilometres north of the... Continue Reading →
Karen Dorne Steele's 2004 article below provides an in-depth analysis of the amount of toxins Teck Cominco discharged into the Columbia River for decades, sourced from documents obtained under British Columbia's Freedom of Information Act. B.C. Smelter Dumped Tons of Mercury Records show scope of river pollutionKaren Dorn Steele Staff writer June 20, 2004 A... Continue Reading →
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