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Remember the Mount Polley mine disaster? It’s worse than you thought. The company responsible is now pumping untreated mine waste straight into Quesnel Lake. Not only has Imperial Metals never faced fines or charges, they’re still polluting this prime sockeye salmon lake.

The Mount Polley tailings dam failure unleashed 25 billion litres of contaminated sludge — destroying a salmon stream, dumping mine waste into Quesnel Lake and sending a plume of toxic chemicals down the Fraser River. To this day, the company responsible has faced no charges, fines or penalties.

Imperial Metals still hasn’t recovered billions of litres of contaminated waste spilled into Quesnel Lake when the Mount Polley mine dam collapsed.

Now the company has applied for permits to drill for gold right in the middle of Manning Park and Skagit Provincial Park.

More and more youth are becoming engaged and participating in politics, around the world and here in British Columbia. They are well-educated, compassionate, mature and ready to make a difference in our province. It’s time to lower the voting age to 16 in B.C. and give youth a voice!

Premier Horgan promised to respect Indigenous rights. He said he’d use “every tool in the toolbox” to defend the B.C. coast from the Trans Mountain oil tanker expansion.

Instead, he’s fighting the Squamish Nation in court to defend Christy Clark’s Big Money-bought pipeline approval. Huh?!

Kinder Morgan executives in Houston are laughing all the way to the bank — with $4.5 billion of our money.

Canadians are left holding a leaky 65-year-old pipeline. And the federal government is still hoping to spend billions more on an uncosted oil tanker expansion project with no permits, no market and no future.

For decades, local people have fought to defend the B.C. coast from the threat of crude oil tanker expansion. Together, Indigenous nations and hundreds of thousands of allies beat Enbridge’s Northern Gateway proposal.

Now, we are so close to seeing a North Coast crude oil tanker ban signed into Canadian law. But Bill C-48 is currently held up before Senate — and under attack by the oil industry.

The Trudeau government is telling the world to stop burning deadly thermal coal for electricity. At the same time, they are letting U.S. coal companies ship their coal through B.C. ports to China, Japan and Korea for that exact purpose. And these exports are increasing.

Did somebody say climate hypocrisy?

Coal dust billowing off the American coal trains careening through our towns is coating the homes and lungs of children in British Columbia. Why? So Donald Trump’s coal baron donors can squeeze the last profits from their dying industry.

U.S. ports reject coal exports because of their poor financial future and health impacts. Now this dirty U.S. coal is bound for B.C. ports, putting our health and economy at risk — and it’s getting a free ride.