$60M FINE TO COAL MINING CO. IN BC

 A Canadian coal-mining company faces the largest fine imposed under the Fisheries Act after pleading guilty to contaminating waterways in southeastern B.C.a.

Teck Coal, a subsidiary of Teck Resources, is to pay $60 million after a judge on Friday agreed to a joint submission from Environment Canada and the company.

Lars Sanders-Green of Wildsight, an environmental group that has been following the issue, pointed out that Teck Coal has taken billions of dollars out of the Elk Valley.

“What Teck and other mining companies have learned is not to worry about Environment Canada,” he said. “This is a problem that’s been known since 1995. Now it’s 2021 and the problem’s getting worse.”