Canada’s largest diversified miner was slapped with hundreds of thousands in fines final 12 months for infractions at its operations within the province.
In January, Teck was given a C$2.2 million positive for an acid spill into Columbia River at its Path smelter operations. A Rossland provincial court docket decide made the order after the corporate pleaded responsible to 2 fees laid beneath the federal Fisheries Act and one cost laid beneath the provincial Environmental Administration Act. The costs resulted from an effluent launch in February 2019.
Then in February, the federal government of British Columbia fined Teck Coal a complete of C$15.4 million for exceeding air pollution thresholds and failing to construct an lively water therapy facility on time at its Fording River operations in southeastern BC.
A authorized motion filed in Montana in Might 2023 named Teck Coal as one in every of three defendants in a request for judicial assessment by environmental teams in Montana and Idaho over ranges of a contaminant from its British Columbia mines in US waters.
On Thursday, the identical day of the media stories, Teck introduced it has accomplished the sale of the remaining 77% curiosity in its steelmaking coal enterprise to Glencore for whole money proceeds of $7.3 billion.