Ms. Que Banh<p>Experts working with the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NaChoNy%C3%A4kDun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaChoNyäkDun</span></a> who have witnessed the fallout at <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VictoriaGoldEagle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VictoriaGoldEagle</span></a> mine near <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Mayo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mayo</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Yukon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yukon</span></a>, say systems on-site are so severely compromised that damage to the land & water is all but inevitable.</p><p>What they describe is a system rendered mostly <a href="https://beige.party/tags/inoperable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inoperable</span></a>, with each affected piece elevating <a href="https://beige.party/tags/risks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>risks</span></a> to the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> — every day.</p><p>On June 24, part of the Eagle <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mine</span></a> failed and a massive <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RockSlide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RockSlide</span></a> involving roughly 4 million tonnes of material cleaved off a large piece of the facility where <a href="https://beige.party/tags/gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gold</span></a> is extracted from ore using a chemical process called cyanide heap leach. Estimates put the amount of ore stacked on the heap leach pad — which functions as a giant industrial percolator — at nearly 4 times what was lost in the slide. </p><p>With the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/HeapLeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HeapLeach</span></a> pad downed, experts say a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxic</span></a> soup of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SodiumCyanide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SodiumCyanide</span></a> & other <a href="https://beige.party/tags/contaminants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminants</span></a> — up to 300,000 cubic metres of solution, according to the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/YukonGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YukonGovernment</span></a> — was released in the initial slide. Since then, they say, more of it has been draining. </p><p>The First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun has called the event "the region's most recent and potentially <a href="https://beige.party/tags/catastrophic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catastrophic</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> failure."</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/victoria-gold-mine-experts-1.7264503" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/north/victo</span><span class="invisible">ria-gold-mine-experts-1.7264503</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeLand</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EnvironmentalCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GoldMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoldMine</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MiningIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiningIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CorporateGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateGreed</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GreedKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreedKills</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AbolishIndustryLobbyists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbolishIndustryLobbyists</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MiningPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiningPollution</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EcoJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcoJustice</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ecological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecological</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arctic</span></a></p>