\u0027(Environment Canada) is proposing end\u002Dof\u002Dpipe and in\u002Dstream limits for selenium that are simply not achievable using current, proven technology. This is not a…
“We just do not see a path to achieving those limits,” said Pierre Gratton of the Mining Association of Canada, which expressed its concerns in a March 2 letter to Environment Canada.The federal government has been trying to write effluent rules for coal since 2017, in response to requests from industry.
That document limits what can come out of the effluent tailpipe for three contaminants: suspended solids, nitrate and selenium — an element known to damage reproduction in fish. Industry says the proposed limits for nitrate and selenium, already increased from the previous version, are still too strict.
“This is not a question of cost. The technology does not currently exist to consistently achieve what has proposed.” About 99 per cent of the flow of the South Saskatchewan River originates in Alberta, much of it in areas that could be affected by coal mining, according to John Pomeroy, Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change at the University of Saskatchewan.
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