Rossland...Canada’s Toxic Secret





 Funny thing happened on the way to the local Grocery store in Rossland BC, a couple of young children were playing outside our Cabin at Red Mountain , when I discovered them eating icicles from the heavily laden roof snow pack of 70cm. Now first of all, EVERY well educated Kootenay resident is accustomed to some epic snow fall, and rooftop accumulations over a 2 day period, but here’s the crux of Rossland’s epic atmospheric Teck Cominco scrubbing attempts using precipitation.

Rossland and Trail BC have the dubious proximity of one of North Americas dirtiest mining companies by sheer size and default. I was present in 2007 when the Columbia River was the unwilling recipient of 80,000Litres of Toxic Lead sludge into the (swimming area) river basin just below it’s outflow doors. I remember the sirens going off in Trail as locals, who are used to having children NOT play outside, scramble to figure out the emergency. Only when the Americans alerted Canadian Environmental Protection Authority, did ANY admission of the “spill” become public knowledge .

This brings me to the ABSURD sight of local children eating snow or ice from the area of Red Mountain/Rossland or Trail. Polluted by years of smokestack billowing effluent and soil depleting chemicals that scare even a modest interest in Land ownership, the surface of most area snow is ripe with Biotoxins from animal feces, (see the dog to human ratio of Rossland) and the lead /fertilizer byproducts of a West Coast 2 Step kind of safety and health. I was also there when ‘old boys’ from Teck Cominco , refused to wear safety equipment out of masculine pride. Please go to the Teck Cominco funded pool in Trial to see the long term effects of heavy metal poisoning ! Now ask yourself...do you really want a house made of Ticky Tacky in a Town full of Dogshit?

File under Don’t drink the Water or eat the food!

Pakootas v. Teck Cominco Metals

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  1. Blackened GingerJanuary 14, 2022 at 4:16 PM

    As a nomadic gypsy who called Rossland home since 2005-06, my shame at living at Red and contributing ANY monetary resource to a hideous real estate scam, is mitigated by the knowledge that someday soon ALL of the morons who bought into the Pocahontas Movie nightmare, will be screaming to a deaf insurance agent before ANY more expansion and destruction of wilderness can occur! Fuck YOU Disney!

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