Re: “Disaster creates a new blueprint for tailings ponds,” March 20.
I read with interest that the ministries of Environment and of Mines have developed new rules that a mining company must include in its application a description of the best available technologies it would employ to improve safety and limit risk of dam failure.
The ministries should also have consulted with the Finance Ministry, which should demand that a huge bond be posted with the application.
It’s time the people of B.C. stopped being left to mop up financially after environmental disasters.
Sonja Ruffell
Saanich
