10 years after a BC mining disaster.
The courts are finally hearing the case which devastated waterways and habitat.
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"It was like standing by Niagara Falls. It was a deep thundering roar," recalled Likely resident Douglas Watt, a retired mine worker, in an interview on Dec. 10.
"This was an instantaneous catastrophic failure ... and yet still 10 years later, we're still picking up levels of metals like copper flowing down the Quesnel River and getting into the water column of the lake," he said in an interview in August 2024, marking the 10th anniversary of the disaster. "That is quite surprising."