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The spill happened on Feb. 18 when a tailings dam that holds acidic waste from a copper mine in the north of the country collapsed, according to investigators from the Engineering Institution of Zambia.

The collapse allowed some 50 million liters of waste containing concentrated acid, dissolved solids and heavy metals to flow into a stream that links to the Kafue River, Zambia’s most important waterway, the engineering institution said.

“It is an environmental disaster really of catastrophic consequences,” said Chilekwa Mumba, an environmental activist who works in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province.

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[–] ro_holding@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Exactly. They'll pay a fine that is significantly less than the money saved by building half-assed pond retention walls, and go right back to not caring about what happens to the world around them, so long as they get their profits.

And this doesn't just happen in Africa, either. Remember the one in BC two or three years ago? Ever heard of Elk Valley? And my province's grifter govt is trying to build more coal mines. If you are in AB and you haven't called your MLA about that, and protested, and donated, you need to wake up.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're not going to pay a fine. The local company will transfer its assets and go out of business.