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Mapping B.C.’s Mine Tailings Threat

WHAT: Creating a Blue Dialogue Webinar
DATE: Wednesday, September 21
TIME: 10am to 11:30am Pacific Time
WHERE: Online

The waste created by British Columbia’s accelerating mining boom at a time of increasingly extreme climate change-driven weather events is a growing threat to communities and watersheds throughout the province.

Join us to learn how the new interactive B.C. Mine Tailings Map can teach us about these threats, and what can be done about them.

The online map was developed by BC Mining Law Reform to fill an important knowledge gap. It provides communities with critical information about the risks posed by billions of cubic metres of toxic liquid mine waste—called tailings—stored behind some of the highest dams in the world.

This webinar is co-hosted by BC Mining Law Reform and the POLIS Water Sustainability Project, based at the University of Victoria's Centre for Global Studies, as part of POLIS' ongoing Creating a Blue Dialogue webinar series.

Featuring

Adrienne Berchtold
Ecologist and Mining Impacts Researcher, SkeenaWild Conservation Trust

Dr. Steven H. Emerman
Owner, Malach Consulting

Robin Irwin
Natural Resources Director, Upper Similkameen Indian Band

Dr. Ellen Petticrew
Research Chair, Quesnel River Research Centre

Moderated by
Nikki Skuce
Director, Northern Confluence Initiative

The Creating a Blue Dialogue webinar series brings together expert water practitioners and thinkers, as well as emerging water leaders, to engage with innovative ideas on water policy and governance in Canada. By creating an online community of interest, the series strengthens the national capacity to engage with and solve problems, and raises awareness about emerging Canadian water issues, best practices, and policies. The series began in 2010 and is hosted by the POLIS Water Sustainability Project at the Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria.

This session co-hosted by

With support from

The POLIS Water Sustainability Project gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Eco-Research Chair of Environmental Law and Policy, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, MakeWay, Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia, Sitka Foundation, and Vancouver Foundation. The WSP also extends a special thank you to the University of Victoria and Centre for Global Studies. All WSP publications are available for download at www.poliswaterproject.org. For more information please contact Laura Brandes at communications@polisproject.org.