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The Corporate Mapping Project, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - BC, University of Victoria, and Wilderness Committee are please to present:
Tailings dam spills at Mount Polley and Mariana: Chronicles of disasters foretold - A public talk with Judith Marshall and Bruno Milanez
The 2014 tailings pond spill at the Mount Polley mine in central BC marked the single worst mining disaster in Canadian history. A year later, an even more horrendous spill occurred at the Mariana mine in Brazil, killing 19 people and leaving hundreds homeless, and contaminating a nearby river system. A recent Corporate Mapping Project report takes a close look at the mining disasters at Mount Polley and Mariana and reveals remarkable similarities in these disasters but also in the corporate, governmental and civil society responses afterwards.
Join us on October 1 in Vancouver to hear from the report’s author, Judith Marshall, and Bruno Milanez (PoEMAS, Brazil) about what we can learn from these disasters about corporate power and influence.
Event details are as follows:
Location: Vancouver
Where: Alice MacKay Room, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch
When: October 1, 2018 - 7-9 PM
Registration: This event is free but registration is required: www.ccpabc.ca/talings_spills_van
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