Transboundary mine developer shutting down

The company trying to reopen the controversial Tulsequah Chief Mine, upstream from Juneau, is being taken over by an investor that’s owed millions of dollars.
Acid drainage from the Tulsequah Chief Mine discolors a leaking containment pond next to the Tulsequah River in British Columbia in 2013. Developer Chieftain Metals is in receivership. (Photo courtesy Chris Miller/Trout Unlimited)It means polluted water could continue to drain from mine tunnels into a Taku River tributary.