Traduction de «Eau d'exhaure de roches acides » (Français → Anglais) :

acid rock drainage [ ARD | acidic rock drainage ]

The mining industry and the two levels of government have worked constructively together on understanding, reducing, predicting, and monitoring the environmental effects of mine tailings and mine liquid effluent through programs such as the mine environmental neutral drainage program, which is a research program designed to understand and manage the problems of acid rock drainage; the AQUAMIN multi-stakeholder process, which was an effort to understand the environmental effects of mining and to identify how to reduce them essentially ...[+++] to zero; and the aquatic effects technology evaluation program, which was designed to discover more efficient ways of actually monitoring those effects in the environment.

So we ran into an impasse and we called in an independent expert who has a great deal of knowledge in acid rock drainage.

Q-97 — Mr. Stoffer (Sackville Musquodoboit Valley Eastern Shore) — In regard to the Tulsequah Chief Mine project: (a) which of the seventy stream crossings, sixty-four culverts and seven bridges to be undertaken in association with the proposed project pose the highest risks to the spawning or rearing habitats of chinook, sockeye, coho, pink, chum salmon, and to the water quality in the area; (b) which of the proposed undertakings pose the greatest risk to other fish species in the area such as Dolly Varden char and whitefish, and cutthroat, bull and steelhead trout; (c) what are the estimated costs to pump back and treat the metals ta ...[+++]iling seepage entering the Shazah wetland as a result of the project operations; (d) what are the concerns of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans related to post-closure issues and road issues including fish passage at crossings, sediment release from the road, the status of roads post-closure, habitat displacement at causeways, and the geotechnical stability of the road; (e) does the government acknowledge and support requests from the community, fishermen associations, NGOs, and the State of Alaska for the project to be referred to the Pacific Salmon Commission for study and recommendations, and if not, why not; (f) will government approval for the project constitute a breach of the " safe passage" provision in the Pacific Salmon Treaty, and if not, why not; (g) what is the government's methodology for the calculation of reclamation bonding to limit taxpayer liability given the mine's remote location and acid mine drainage risks to critical fish habitat; and (h) why has the site never been reclaimed and acid drainage from the mine, identified by Environment Canada in 1995 as acutely toxic to fish, been allowed to continue to flow into the Tulsequah River?

Again, for my part, we review technical documentation and provide scientific and technical expertise in the areas of minerals and metals sciences, including expertise related to things such as acid rock drainage, waste management, mine effluent, and metal leaching.