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A B.C. First Nation that is going to court to try to stop a mining company from raising its tailings dam is now applying for an emergency injunction to put the construction on hold. The Xatsull nation announced earlier this month that it had filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its dam, a decade after a similar storage site at the mine collapsed, setting off an environmental disaster in the nation’s territory. The nation says in a statement issued Friday that when it filed the request for the review of the government decision, it also invited Imperial Metals, Mount Polley’s parent company, to suspend its construction until the court decision is made. The statement says Imperial’s president Brian Kynoch responded by… <\/p>\n

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A B.C. First Nation that is going to court to try to stop a mining company from raising its tailings dam is now applying for an emergency injunction to put the construction on hold. The Xatsull nation announced earlier this month that it had filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its dam, a decade after a similar storage site at the mine collapsed, setting off an environmental disaster in the nation’s territory. The nation says in a statement issued Friday that when it filed the request for the review of the government decision, it also invited Imperial Metals, Mount Polley’s parent company, to suspend its construction until the court decision is made. The statement says Imperial’s president Brian Kynoch responded by... <\/p>\n

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