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Redcorp ordered to clean up B.C. mine
May 27 2009 | News Articles | The Star
Redcorp ordered to clean up B.C. mine
May 27 2009
Environment Canada has directed insolvent Redcorp Ventures Ltd. to immediately stop acid discharges at the Tulsequah Chief mine in northwestern British Columbia.
The company has been operating under court protection from its creditors and announced Monday that chairman Ken Lowe had resigned and chief financial officer Mike Bardell had left the company.
Later on Monday, Redcorp said it had been served that day with an “inspector’s direction” from Environment Canada, dated May 22, 2009. The direction ordered Redcorp to stop the contravention of the Fisheries Act.
Redcorp said it has prepared an environmental works and compliance plan and will ask for court approval at a hearing scheduled for today.
Mining activity at Tulsequah Chief ceased in the late 1950s.
But Redcorp had been trying in recent years to get the mine back into commercial production.
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