Canadian coal mine fined $60 million for polluting waters upstream of Lake Koocanusa
A snowy Lake Koocanusa above Libby. (Daily Inter Lake FILE)
A Canadian coal mining company faces $60 million in fines after pleading guilty to polluting a tributary of Lake Koocanusa and the Kootenai River.
Prosecutors successfully leveled two federal counts of unlawfully depositing of deleterious substances — in this case, selenium and calcite — into the Fording River against Teck Resources...
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