Broken trust: Yukoners reflect on how mine spill affects relationship with land | CBC.ca Loaded
Broken trust: Yukoners reflect on how mine spill affects relationship with land
- 4 hours ago
- News
- Duration 6:00
When you live off the land, you have to trust your environment. Your health and livelihood are tied to it. This year there was a major breach of that trust in the Yukon. A failure at the Eagle Gold Mine in central Yukon sent 300 million litres of cyanide solution into the environment. That spill set off a series of events in quick succession ending in the mine’s owner shuttering the company, and the mine itself going into receivership. Left behind are the people who need that land to live.