Anthony Britneff: B.C. needs to restore 'adequate public oversight' to protect the environment

When a dam holding back a massive amount of highly toxic water gave way at the Mount Polley mine in August 2014, it triggered more than one of the worst environmental disasters in Canadian history.
It exposed the dark underside of the B.C. government’s policy of drumming large numbers of public servants out of the business of protecting our environment and turning much of that work over, instead, to the private sector.
The Mount Polley spill unleashed a million cubic metres of contaminated