Downstream Ruling Against Teck

The Columbia River below British Columbia’s Arrow lakes is a slice of tailwater that rivals Calgary’s Bow River as one of the country’s best. It’s also home to a notorious, shit-spewing polluter known as Teck Cominco (or Teck Metals Inc.). The Canadian mining company, which has for years dumped millions of tons of smelting waste into the Columbia, is about to get crushed by U.S. environmental law for contamination that stretches from the Canadian border down to central Washington’s Grand Coulee Dam.

Via the Columbia Basin Bulletin: “Judge Lonny R. Suko said in his Dec. 14 ‘Findings of Fact and Conclusions’ that Teck is ‘is jointly and severally liable in any subsequent action or actions to recover past or future response costs’ to repair resource damages in Columbia River reaches from the Canadian border down to central Washington’s Grand Coulee Dam.

“A Phase II of litigation, as well as additional scientific study, would determine how much the company might have to pay, the judge said.”

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