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4 unusual facts about Teck Resources


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# 12 February 1975: "Where Are You Goin' Company Town?" (Ian McLaren producer; Stephen Dewar director), set in Trail, British Columbia, concerning the relationship between management and employees at the dominant employer Cominco.

Teck Resources

After a long running court case filed by Washington state’s Native American Colville Confederated Tribes over environmental damage from smelter effluents, Teck Resources confessed to polluting the upper reaches of the Columbia River for nearly a century.

The company's smelter in Trail, British Columbia was blamed in 2003 for heavily contaminating the Columbia River.

The company's Red Dog mine operation in north-western Alaska has been ranked by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as one of the most polluting facilities in the United States based on output tonnage of toxic waste, largely (over 99%)in the form of blasted and moved, but otherwise unprocessed, waste rock from mining operations.



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