The Overnight News Digest is nightly series dedicated to chronicling the day's news of import or interest. Everyone is welcome to add their own news items in the comments. Tonight's OND chronicles news from around the globe.
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- Spiegel - Targeting Turkey: How Germany Spies on Its Friends
It was mid-July, and … a spy for the Americans had been exposed inside Germany's foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), and the government in Berlin ordered the CIA's top official in Germany to leave the country, demonstrating to Washington that it refused to put up with just anything. Berlin seemed to be going on the offensive.
It didn't last long. Four weeks later, Chancellor Angela Merkel's team is backpedaling. On Friday, the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the BND -- even if apparently unintentionally -- had eavesdropped on a telephone conversation by then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The revelation made Merkel's dictum, "Spying among friends? That's unacceptable," ring a bit hollow…
SPIEGEL has learned from sources that Turkey is one of the BND focuses included in the BND order profile, making the country an official target for the foreign intelligence agency's espionage efforts. The fact that the German intelligence service, at the behest of the government, has targeted a NATO ally could undermine recent efforts by the German government to resolve tensions between Berlin and Ankara.
Turkey's reaction has thus far been muted, with Ankara apparently at pains to avoid a potentially damaging confrontation. Germany's ambassador to Turkey on Monday was asked by the Foreign Ministry in Ankara to come in for a meeting, but both sides insisted the atmosphere of the conversation was "friendly." Later on Monday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry released a statement saying that, if the reports were true, such espionage would be "absolutely unacceptable." |
USA
- NYT - Governor Lifts Curfew in Ferguson After Deploying National Guard
Gov. Jay Nixon lifted a curfew in this embattled city on Monday, hours after deploying the Missouri National Guard, as officials struggle to control unrest that has paralyzed the community since an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white police officer…
In Washington, President Obama said that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. would go to Ferguson on Wednesday to meet with officials there. The president chastised the small number of protesters who were undermining efforts to find justice.
Mr. Obama said that he had talked to Governor Nixon about the role of the National Guard, adding that “I’ll be watching over the next several days to assess whether it’s helping rather than hindering.” |
- Forbes - China Cuts U.S. Debt Holdings Again
China lowered its U.S. debt holdings for the fourth time in a row this June, dropping to $1.28 trillion in government bonds from the $1.27 billion held in May. On balance, the decline is minimal and is still a drop in the bucket as China remains the biggest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury debt.
China’s holdings of U.S. debt hit an all-time high of $1.317 trillion last November but has been in decline ever since…
“The story is pretty simple,” said Nicholas Lardy, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, on Aug 15 in an interview with China Daily. “China is no longer intervening in the foreign exchange market on a large scale, so its reserves are not rising so rapidly,” he said. China has nearly $4 trillion in foreign currency reserves, the largest reserve account in the world. |
- LAT - 'Severe' drought covers nearly 99.8% of California, report says
Drought conditions may have leveled off across California, but nearly 100% of the state remains in the third-harshest category for dryness, according to the latest measurements.
For the past two weeks, California's drought picture has remained the same, halting a steady march toward worse. But the breather has allowed the state to recover only ever so slightly.
In May, 100% of California was experiencing "severe" drought -- the third harshest on a five-level scale -- but since things have leveled off, that figure has only improved to 99.8%, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor report. Meanwhile, nearly 82% of California continues to suffer "extreme" drought, and within that area, more than half the state is under the driest "exceptional" drought category. |
- Seattle Times - As they work out kinks, pot growers strive to meet demand
It might have been Seattle’s easiest pot deal, if you don’t take into account FBI background checks, adding every gram into the state’s traceability system or testing for mold and moisture in a state-licensed lab.
Mark Greenshields and Joby Sewell climbed into a 1997 Toyota Land Cruiser with a bit more than a pound of marijuana and cruised down Airport Way, with directions on a manifest provided by the Liquor Control Board.
Just more than a mile later they arrived at Cannabis City, Seattle’s first — and for now, only — retail pot store. It took all of four minutes. |
- AP - BrightSource solar plant sets birds on fire as they fly overhead
Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the concentrated beams of solar energy focused upward by the plant's 300,000 mirrors — "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.
Federal wildlife investigators who visited BrightSource Energy's Ivanpah plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one "streamer" every two minutes, are urging California officials to halt the operator's application to build a still-bigger version…
Federal wildlife officials said Ivanpah might also act as a "mega-trap" for wildlife, with the bright light of the plant attracting insects, which in turn attract insect-eating birds that fly to their death in the intensely focused light rays. |
- StarTribune - As fungus kills bats, MN timber industry winces
A cave fungus that’s killing millions of bats across the country is threatening to become a big problem for Minnesota’s timber industry.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will decide next spring whether to add the northern long-eared bat, which is being wiped out in places by the disease called white nose syndrome, to the endangered species list.
Such a decision would trigger a blanket prohibition against killing the bats, even accidentally. That would halt logging in much of the country during warm months, when the little animals roost in the forest and raise their vulnerable young in trees. |
Europe
- NYT - Rebels Killed Dozens in Attack on Refugees, Ukraine Says
Separatists rebels on Monday attacked a caravan of cars carrying refugees trying to flee war-ravaged eastern Ukraine, killing “dozens” of people in a devastating barrage of artillery fire, Ukrainian military officials said, though rebel leaders denied there had been any attack at all.
Col. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian military, told a briefing in Kiev, the capital, that “terrorists had perpetrated a bloody crime” by attacking the refugee convoy with Grad rocket systems and other heavy weapons supplied by Russia.
Although Colonel Lysenko did not give a precise tally of the fatalities, if confirmed, the incident would easily rank among the most deadly for civilians since separatist militants began seizing cities and towns in the region more than four months ago. |
- Telegraph - Illegal immigrants in Tilbury shipping container were 'Sikhs from Afghanistan'
The illegal immigrants found screaming for help inside a shipping container at an Essex dockyard were Sikhs from Afghanistan, police have revealed.
The officer leading a homicide inquiry after a man’s body was found inside the container along with 34 other people said members of the Sikh community from Tilbury were assisting officers and helping to care for the stowaways.
Essex Police said they include nine men and eight women aged between 18 and 72 as well as 13 children aged between one and 12… A spokesman for Essex Police said the Afghans would be taken to a “suitable location” by Border Force officials, although it is understood they are not in immigration detention. |
- Grapevine - Growing Likelihood Of Eruption At Bárðarbunga
The possibility of a volcanic eruption at Bárðarbunga is increasing, to where the Prime Minister has met with rescue and civil defence officials on the subject.
The Icelandic Met Office reports that there are “very strong indications of ongoing magma movement, in connection with dyke intrusion, is corroborated by GPS measurements”.
At the same time, they emphasise that “as evidence of magma movement shallower than 10 km implies increased potential of a volcanic eruption, the Bárðarbunga aviation color code has been changed to orange. Presently there are no signs of eruption, but it cannot be excluded that the current activity will result in an explosive subglacial eruption, leading to an outburst flood (jökulhlaup) and ash emission.” |
Africa
- StarAfrica - Liberia: Border guards given shoot-on-sight orders to counter spread of Ebola
Border guards in Liberia have been ordered to shoot on sight people found sneaking through the border with neighbouring Sierra Leone at night. The order issued last week took immediate effect in Bomi and Grand Cape Mount Counties in western Liberia and is seen as a countermeasure against the spread of Ebola.
Speaking in an interview with the {African Press Agency} on Monday, the Assistant Defense Minister for Public Affairs, David Dahn said the order was in line with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s drive to prevent further problems posed by the epidemic.
Dahn said the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Liberia, Col. Eric Dennis passed the order to the commander of the platoon-size AFL soldiers deployed at Bo Waterside. |
- LAT - In Nigeria, child beggars are easy recruits for Boko Haram extremists
They scurry between vehicles in the traffic-choked cities of northern Nigeria, small boys in tattered clothing armed with begging tins.
Known as the almajiri, the youngsters, some no older than 5, have flooded the streets for the nearly 15 years since a tsunami of cheap Chinese imports and a dysfunctional electrical system began destroying the region's once-thriving textile manufacturing industry. Many more children have streamed in from rural areas since similar collapses of the fishing and agriculture sectors left their parents unable to feed them.
Here, the youngsters' only schooling comes from threadbare clerics for whom they recite the Koran a few hours a day. And then they go out and beg for food. Such conditions have made the almajiri prime fodder for recruitment by Boko Haram. |
- AP - Poachers killed 100,000 elephants across Africa from 2010-2012: study
Poachers killed an estimated 100,000 elephants across Africa between 2010 and 2012, a huge spike in the continent’s death rate of the world’s largest mammals because of an increased demand for ivory in China and other Asian nations, a new study published Monday found.
Warnings about massive elephant slaughters have been ringing for years, but Monday’s study is the first to scientifically quantify the number of deaths across the continent by measuring deaths in one closely monitored park in Kenya and using other published data to extrapolate fatality tolls across the continent…
“The current demand for ivory is unsustainable. That is our overarching conclusion. It must come down. Otherwise the elephants will continue to decrease,” said Iain Douglas-Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants. |
Middle East
- LAT - Kurdish forces retake strategic Mosul dam from Islamic State militants
Kurdish Iraqi forces backed by U.S. airstrikes regained control of a strategic dam late Monday after a three-day battle with Islamic State militants who overran the facility earlier this month, military officials said.
“We now have complete control of the Mosul dam,” Kurdish Brig. Gen. Sardar Karim said along the front lines of the battle, about 20 miles east of the militant-held northern city of Mosul.
The Islamic State militants appeared to be in a tactical retreat from the dam and surrounding villages, ceding the ground they took less than two weeks ago, under a barrage of U.S. airstrikes and a ground attack by rejuvenated Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga. |
- Reuters - Islamic State executed 700 people from Syrian tribe: monitoring group
The Islamic State militant group has executed 700 members of a tribe it has been battling in eastern Syria during the past two weeks, the majority of them civilians, a human rights monitoring group and activists said on Saturday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has tracked violence on all sides of the three-year-old conflict, said reliable sources reported beheadings were used to execute many of the al-Sheitaat tribe, which is from Deir al-Zor province.
The conflict between Islamic State and the al-Sheitaat tribe, who number about 70,000, flared after the militants took over two oil fields in July. “Those who were executed are all al-Sheitaat,” Observatory director Rami Abdelrahman said by telephone from Britain. “Some were arrested, judged and killed.” |
- Guardian - Gaza ceasefire expires at midnight with deal to end conflict yet to be reached
The five-day ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip expires at midnight, with no firm indications that Egyptian mediators in Cairo have succeeded in securing a deal to end the five-week conflict…
A military official told the Guardian on Monday that the Israeli delegation was still pushing for action on the demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip, a divisive issue as Hamas and Islamic Jihad have repeatedly ruled out giving up their weapons…
Palestinian sources in Cairo also suggested to the Haaretz newspaper that there was a general appetite for the truce to continue, saying that the conflict was "being talked about in the past tense". |
- WaPo - Suspect in revenge killing of Palestinian teen hunted victim, prosecutors say
The Israeli eyeglass-shop owner accused of burning an Arab teenager alive last month led a “hunting expedition” to kill a Palestinian to avenge the murder of three Israeli yeshiva students, prosecutors say…
The criminal indictment against Yosef Haim Ben-David, 30, portrays him as a remorseless night stalker who prowled Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, armed with bottles of gasoline and plastic handcuffs, looking for a weak, vulnerable victim…
In a recent courtroom appearance, Ben-David proclaimed, “I am the messiah!” — an outburst that the families of his Arab victims fear was a calculated attempt to evade justice with an insanity defense. |
South Asia
- Reuters - Pakistan opposition leader calls for tax boycott in anti-government protest
Leading opposition politician Imran Khan urged Pakistanis on Sunday not to pay taxes or utility bills as a protest against the government and vowed to force the country's "corrupt" prime minister to step down this week.
"After two days ... your time is up," Khan shouted to thousands of supporters at a rally in central Islamabad.
Police estimated on Sunday that around 55,000 people have occupied two streets in the center of the Pakistani capital as part of separate protests led by Khan and cleric Tahir ul-Qadri. |
- WaPo - Imran Khan’s party quits Parliament, escalating pressure on premier to resign
Pakistan faced a brewing crisis Monday less than 18 months after completing a historic transfer of power from one democratically elected government to another, as a key opposition party said it is pulling out of the national assembly and thousands of demonstrators prepared for a showdown with security forces in the capital.
The decision by the Movement for Justice party, led by former cricket star Imran Khan, to withdraw from Parliament is testing the resolve of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as he attempts to fend off calls for his resignation.
Arguing that the national elections of May 2013 were fraudulent, Khan has mobilized several thousand followers to demonstrate in Islamabad in recent days. Khan, whose party finished third in those elections, has declared that the protest and other acts of civil disobedience will continue until the prime minister steps down. |
- The Hindu - India-Pakistan talks are off
Angered by Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit’s decision to engage with Hurriyat leaders, the Narendra Modi government on Monday called off the Foreign Secretary-level talks scheduled for August 25 in Islamabad. With this, the euphoria generated by inviting Pakistan Prime Minister to Mr. Modi’s swearing-in has effectively ended.
Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh telephoned and told Mr. Basit just minutes after he met the leader of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party Shabir Shah that the meeting “with these so called leaders of the Hurriyat undermines the constructive diplomatic engagement initiated by Prime Minister Modi in May on his very first day in office.”
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- Times of India - Chinese troops enter 25km deep into Indian territory
Chinese troops are reported to have entered 25 to 30km deep into Indian territory in Burtse area in Ladakh where they had pitched their tents last year that had led to a tense three-week standoff.
Official sources said on Monday a patrol of Indian troops noticed the People's Liberation Army (PLA) personnel yesterday while moving from their base towards the higher 'New Patrol base' post in Burtse area of North Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir. The area is at an altitude of 17,000 feet.
The sources said the troops after walking barely 1.5km from their base spotted the Chinese personnel in Indian territory 25 to 30km from the perceived Line of Actual Control (LAC). |
- Reuters - Afghanistan running out of cash as poll deadlock drags on
The Afghan government is running out of funds despite an influx of millions of dollars in aid as a deadlock over who won the election drives a sharp decline in revenues, already suffering from the drawdown of thousands of foreign troops.
The government faces difficulty paying salaries next month and has once more gone cap in hand to donors for help, a senior finance ministry official said on condition of anonymity, because of the sensitivity of the topic.
The U.S. embassy in Kabul confirmed Afghan officials had briefed them about their difficulty paying salaries and funding programs in coming months, but did not detail how donors planned to respond. |
Asia
- Bloomberg - China Home Prices Fall in Most Cities on Weak Demand
China’s new-home prices fell in July in almost all cities that the government tracks as tight mortgage lending deterred buyers even as local governments eased property curbs.
Prices fell in 64 of the 70 cities last month from June, the National Bureau of Statistics said today, the most since January 2011 when the government changed the way it compiles the data. Beijing prices fell 1 percent from June, posting the first monthly decline since April 2012.
“The falling trend of China’s property market has no sign of improving,” Shen Jian-guang, Hong Kong-based chief Asia economist at Mizuho Securities Asia Ltd., said in a phone interview today. “The key issue is the mortgages, despite all types of local government easings. The high rate is damping sentiment of owner occupiers.” |
- WaPo - After the Fukushima meltdown, Japan’s nuclear restart is stalled
It is now three and a half years since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami led to meltdowns at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the subsequent shuttering of all 48 of Japan’s nuclear reactors. Yet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plans to quickly restart that country’s atomic energy program remain stalled. While Japanese businesses have continued to press politicians and bureaucrats to bring plants across the country back online, exactly when any of Japan’s reactors will restart is uncertain.
Last month, the two reactors at the Kyushu Electric Power Company’s Sendai nuclear power plant were the first to pass new, stricter safety tests, but the actual restart date has been pushed back into the winter of 2015. Residents within 5 km of the plant now have potassium-iodide pills in the event of another accident, and some nine towns within 30 km of the plant have finally designed evacuation plans in case of a meltdown. These changes were a direct result of the Fukushima accident, which also spurred the creation of a new, independent nuclear industry regulator.
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- USA Today - Former enemy Vietnam seeks U.S. help to counter China
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey has served 40 years in the Army, fought in Iraq, traveled the world many times over.
None of that fully prepared him for his first visit to Vietnam — the first by a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since Adm. Thomas Moorer visited in 1971. At that time, there were 300,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam…
Dempsey's visit signals that the United States and Vietnam want to forge closer military ties, says Ernie Bower, an expert on Southeast Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Full diplomatic relations with the communist country were established in 1995, though a U.S. ban on selling weapons to Vietnam remains.
"The Vietnam War — or the U.S. War, as the Vietnamese call it — is fading fast in the rearview mirror," Bower says. The United States and Vietnam find common interests in developing a stable, peaceful and prosperous region, he says. |
- Jakarta Post - Independence Day emotional for SBY
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has now bid several farewells to the nation he has led for the past decade, the most emotional of which was his final State of the Nation Address, delivered on Friday last week.
On Sunday, the flag-raising ceremony to commemorate 69 years of the country’s independence became the occasion when the country bid farewell to Yudhoyono.
This time, it was the pilots of the Air Force fighter jets who conducted a farewell flyby for the President over the State Palace lawn. |
Oceana
- The Age - Solar farm abandoned amid uncertainty over renewable energy target
The company planning to build one of Australia’s largest solar farms has walked away from the project amid uncertainty over federal government support for a long-term renewable energy target.
Silex Systems announced on Monday that it would suspend its proposed 2000-dish solar farm near Mildura, which had been billed as being capable of producing enough electricity to run 30,000 homes.
Chief executive Michael Goldsworthy said the combination of uncertainty about the target, which requires 41,000 gigawatt hours of electricity from renewable sources by 2020, and low wholesale power prices, meant the $420 million project would not go ahead. |
Americas
- WaPo - Peru fights gold fever with fire and military force
After years of ignoring the frantic gold rush fouling the Amazon forests of southeastern Peru’s Madre de Dios region, the government has launched a no-mercy campaign to crush it.
Since April, it has sent police and soldiers on dozens of helicopter raids, swooping down to blow up equipment and burn mining camps. It has cut fuel supplies to Madre de Dios in an attempt to choke off the miners’ generators, motorbikes and diesel engines, saying per capita fuel consumption in the region is 10 times the national average because their machinery runs round-the-clock.
The goal isn’t to bend the miners into legal compliance. It is to drive them out of the jungle entirely. “They don’t belong here,” Fernandez said. “They should go home.” |
- Bloomberg - Silva to Push Brazil to Runoff in Election Too Close to Call
Marina Silva would push Brazil’s election to a runoff in a vote that would be too close to call, according to the first poll since presidential candidate Eduardo Campos died in a plane crash last week.
Silva, who is set to replace Campos as the candidate of the Brazilian Socialist Party this week, would command 47 percent of the vote in the second round, compared with 43 percent for Dilma Rousseff, a difference that falls within the plus or minus 2 percentage point margin of error in a Datafolha poll published today. In the first round, Silva is statistically tied with Senator Aecio Neves with 21 percent and 20 percent of the support respectively.
Silva, 56, became the wild card in Brazilian politics after Campos died. She came third in the 2010 national election against Rousseff with 19 percent of the vote as the Green Party’s candidate. She was Campos’s running mate. |
- LAHT - Chile Should Continue Developing Hydro Energy, Minister Says
Hydroelectric power is clean, inexpensive and may continue to be used in Chile, where new energy projects are needed to cut electricity costs, Energy Minister Maximo Pacheco said Monday.
Chile lacks oil and gas resources, forcing it over the years to rely on hydroelectric power plants, which are increasingly being challenged by communities and environmentalists.
“(The) impact produced by lack of investment in adequate infrastructure in the sector affects the economy’s growth and makes it more difficult to deal with poverty,” Pacheco said at a seminar. |
- Guardian - Colombian piracy trial over thesis absurd, say activists
In what open rights activists are calling an "absurd" application of copyright law, a 26-year-old student could face up to eight years in jail for posting a scholarly article on the internet for other academics to see.
Diego Gómez, a biologist working on reptile and amphibian conservation, is accused of violating "economic and other rights" after he uploaded a master's thesis by a fellow scholar to the text-sharing website Scribd four years ago.
Gómez found the paper while researching amphibians and reptiles at the National University. In a statement on the case, he said the sole purpose of posting it had been to share the information with other researchers who may not otherwise have access to it. "I thought it was something that others might be interested in," he wrote. |
- BBC - Panama Canal at 100: A tale of growth and development
The Panama Canal opened 100 years ago. It was a feat of engineering that revolutionised global trade. More than a million ships have passed through the 80km (50 mile) canal in the past century, but what do the next 100 years hold for the waterway and the small Central American country?
If the number of skyscrapers is a marker of a country's ambition, then Panama has set its sights high - Panama City's skyline is full of towering apartment blocks, and newer high-rises are continually going up…
Since 2008, the country has seen average economic growth of about 8% a year. |
- LAHT - More Than 300,000 Abandoned Dogs Live on Streets of Bolivia
More than 300,000 abandoned dogs live on the streets of Bolivia, a country of 10 million inhabitants, officials said.
The expert in animal-transmitted infections at the Bolivian Health Ministry, Grover Paredes, said in a statement to state news agency ABI that there are 300,000 stray dogs in the country and urged that the “indiscriminate sale” of animals be controlled to put an end to that situation…
According to Paredes, in Bolivia there are also another 2.5 million canines that have owners. |
- Latin Post - US Companies Considering Investing in Mexico Oil
Last week, the Mexican government announced that it will open its oil resources to domestic and foreign private investors. Now, various U.S. petroleum companies are eyeing a piece of the pie.
For 76 years, Mexico's oil resources were state-controlled, run by Petróleos Mexicanos, also known as Pemex, Fox News Latino reports. On Aug. 11, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a bill allowing private companies to bid on Mexico's oil reserves, according to Forbes, although Pemex will still control 83 percent of the country's "proven and probable reserves," which total about 20.6 billion barrels of crude oil equivalent, The New York Times reports…
Pemex hopes to help U.S. companies tap into the Gulf of Mexico, something which the company lacks technological and financial resources to do alone. U.S. companies interested in Mexican oil include ExxonMobil, Chevron, OG Resources Inc and ConocoPhillips. |
- Businessweek - Riskiest Oil Projects Are in Canada
The U.K. think tank Carbon Tracker Initiative is out with a compilation of the world’s costliest oil projects under consideration by big oil companies. The report lists 20 projects with a combined price tag of $90.6 billion. Nine of the top 20 are in Canada. Eight of those are oil sands projects in Alberta. The rest are either deepwater or Arctic projects. All of them, according to CTI’s analysis, need oil prices to be at least $95 a barrel…
If oil prices do dip below $100, profits on those megaprojects will get quite thin. All these companies have shareholders. If they have to spend more money to produce oil than they can make selling it, investors will eventually revolt…
With Keystone XL held up by the Obama Administration, the Canadian government is approving pipelines to take that oil sands crude east and west, but not south into the U.S. That has boosted Alberta oil sands production and has the Alberta economy booming. |
- Globe and Mail - B.C. mine’s breached tailings pond one of 98 to undergo independent investigation
The B.C. government has formally announced there will be an independent investigation into the massive tailings pond breach at the Mount Polley mine.
Bill Bennett, the province’s Minister of Energy and Mines, announced the investigation at a news conference Monday. Mr. Bennett said independent reviews will also be carried out at every other tailings pond in B.C.
The tailings pond at the Mount Polley copper and gold mine – which is owned by Imperial Metals Corporation – breached on Aug. 4, sending millions of cubic metres of waste into central B.C. waterways. |