British Columbia-based Teck Resources Limited has announced a third water treatment plant is operational to treat selenium in the upper Fording River of Canada. It drains into Montana’s Kootenai River and Lake Koocanusa where Montana recently implemented new and now contested standards for selenium discharges caused by coal mining. Teck has ch...
Canada’s Largest Coal Company Seeking To Reduce State Water Quality Standards
Teck Resources Ltd. this month filed a petition with the Montana Board of Environmental Review to challenge their recently applied water quality standard for the trace element selenium, a byproduct of coal mining that can kill fish and inhibit growth on both sides of the border. Teck are asking them to nullify the new standard, claiming itR...