HD Mining bulk samples controversy in BC

摘要

HD Mining wants to develop an underground coal mine in northern B.C. The resource on its property is as good as it gets in the coal world - high-quality metallurgical coal, the kind used to make steel - and there's enough of it to support a mine for at least 30 years. On the surface it's a great news story, especially because the nearby town of Tumbler Ridge was custom-built to support coal mining. In a 1981 deal with Canadian mining companies and several Japanese steel mills, the B.C. government agreed to build a town, two sections of highway, a power line and a branch rail line to support coal mining in the area.