The figure, recently approved by the Treasury Board of Canada, spans costs from 2005 until 2038, when active remediation at the former Yellowknife gold mine is anticipated to end. That includes $710 million the federal government said has already been spent, but does not include costs forlong-term care and maintenance.
There are more than 20,000 locations listed in the federal contaminated sites inventory, from dumps and abandoned mines to military operations on federal land.Environment and Climate Change Canada says that after Giant Mine, the four most expensive cleanups are the Faro Mine in Yukon, the Port Hope Area Initiative in Ontario, Esquimalt Harbour in British Columbia and Yukon's United Keno Hill Mine.
Parsons Inc. was awarded a $108-million contract in February for construction, care and maintenance at Faro Mine until March 2026, with the option to extend the contract for the duration of active remediation. The company said the contract could ultimately span 20 years and exceed $2 billion. The cleanup in the Esquimalt Harbour seabed in Victoria currently has a budget of $162.5 million. Roughly $214 million has already been spent on remediation and assessment. The Department of National Defence said that may include costs before 2015, when the remediation project began.
The 2022 public accounts state the gross liability for the 2,524 federal contaminated sites where action is required is nearly $10 billion based on site assessments. Of the 3,079 unassessed sites, 1,330 are projected to proceed to remediation with an estimated liability of $256 million.
Can you imagine if liberal_party stopped slowing QC to release sewage into the ocean, rivers and lakes? I’ll await your report on this climate disaster.
This is what runaway extractive capitalism does. Companies take the profits and destroy the landscape, and taxpayers are left holding the bag.
What remediation Liberals are the worst
So much for ongoing monitoring.
Sure 🙄
l dont work so i dont give a 💩 .
How many billions of dollars has JustinTrudeau sent to foreign countries? 🤔 just imagine how that taxpayers money could have helped Canada and Canadians!
Business need to set aside a percentage of their profits to pay for clean up.
Why do miners shit all over the place? Is this India or something?
Why was it allowed to get that way and why is the Canadian taxpayer have to pay for this and when the people who did this made their money. They should be paying for it.
Because there were no reclamation rules when it opened. History here:
Now talk about lithium mines for EV batteries
No problem raising the amount, just keep Canadas cheque book at home when Justine goes abroad.
Too bad we gave some of that tax money away to other countries as if we had extra to give and we were flourishing.
Meh, just do nothing. wait until some companies come to the table with better plans. No rush to do anything here🤡
Anyone know what happens to carbon taxes or does Trudeau just pocket them? TrudeauLied
Who said we're going to clean up?
Yup look at that. Humans destroying nature again. Sigh
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