In addition to the common mining-company maneuver of declaring bankruptcy before having to fork out money for reclamation, another set of common ploys appears to be tax dodging and bribing local communities. The story of Cameco Corp., a uranium-mining company in Saskatchewan, is a good illustration of those.

Another mining company in Montana goes broke before reclamation is finished, leaving the environment at risk. How many times does this have to happen before companies are required to be accountable before they start?

Want evidence as to how often environmental agency and mining industry predictions are wrong when it comes to water contamination? This report – Comparisons Report Final – analyzes the water quality that environmental studies predict prior to the approval of several different mines and the resulting water quality after the mines were in operation. They find…