In December last year the Gullbridge Tailings Dam, somewhere in Newfoundland, failed. Here is a link to the “best,” i.e., most comprehensive report that I can find. Seems like an engineering report prepared about a year prior to the failure resulted in a total lack of action and, as predicted by the report, the dam failed. Here is a link to the engineering report that lead to inaction. (more…)
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Gullbridge Tailings Dam Failure, a failure of oversight and action
Posted in About the news, consulting, Enviromental, Tailings, tagged gullbridge, newfoundland, stantec, tailings dam on January 25, 2013 | 2 Comments »
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