Glacial highways, giant open pit mines and sprawling tailings ponds. Our exclusive reader-funded photoessay is live today.
More than 100 DeSmog Canada readers chipped in $10,000 to send award-winning photographer Garth Lenz to document B.C.'s remote mines and the communities living downstream.
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