by Al Gedicks
Wisconsin Resources Protection Council
Aquila’s Communications Manager Dan Blondeau has claimed that the tailings management facility at the Back Forty is not a traditional upstream raised tailings dam design and that it is “significantly different” from the failed Brumadinho tailings dam in Brazil. Blondeau says that “Our facility was designed to mitigate the known risks of common upstream raised tailings facilities.”
by Al Gedicks
Wisconsin Resources Protection Council
agedicks@eagle.uwlax.edu
The proposed Back Forty tailings waste storage uses the upstream dam construction method.
by Al Gedicks
Wisconsin Resources Protection Council
agedicks@eagle.uwlax.edu
Tailings Dams Are the Biggest Environmental Disaster Threat of Modern Mining
My main concern with the amended permit application is with the expansion of the Tailings Management Facility which largely accounts for the mine’s footprint expanding by some 200 acres.
