Introduction

A Closer Look: The Elk Valley

• Concerns Facing the Mining Industry

Taking Care of the Environment: Greenhills

Air Quality Control

Water Quality and Drainage Control

Testing Water Quality

Reclamation of Post-Mining Areas

Why Do Research?

Conclusion

Footnotes

   ¹Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia and East Kootenay Environmental Society, "Environmental Impacts of Mining," Mining and Environmental Primer (April 2000): n. pag., online, Internet, 28 Aug. 2000, available miningwatch.org.

   ²Brochure: Protecting Natures Balance Greenhills; Fording Coal Limited Fording Inc.1998 Corporate Office Suite 1000, Fording Place Calgary, Alberta T2G 0R4

   ³Brochure: Protecting Natures Balance Greenhills; Fording Coal Limited Fording Inc.1998 Corporate Office Suite 1000, Fording Place Calgary, Alberta T2G 0R4

   ⁴Brochure: Protecting Natures Balance Greenhills; Fording Coal Limited Fording Inc.1998 Corporate Office Suite 1000, Fording Place Calgary, Alberta T2G 0R4

   ⁵Brochure: Protecting Natures Balance Greenhills; Fording Coal Limited Fording Inc.1998 Corporate Office Suite 1000, Fording Place Calgary, Alberta T2G 0R4

   ⁶Brochure: The Fording River Mine: Over Twenty Years of Reclamation Printed in Calgary Alberta by Kallen Graphics

   ⁷Brochure: Protecting Natures Balance Greenhills; Fording Coal Limited Fording Inc.1998 Corporate Office Suite 1000, Fording Place Calgary, Alberta T2G 0R4

   ⁸Western Canada's Coal; The Sleeping Giant A Report by an Independent Task Force Published by Canada West Foundation, Calgary, Alberta, Nov 1980

Website: Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia-www.miningwatch.org -The East Kootenay: A Regional Profile of Mining and Land Use -Mining and Environmental Primer