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Yukon government stepping in to build ‘safety berm’ after company misses deadlines
WHITEHORSE, YUKON — The Yukon government says it is stepping in to build a safety berm at the site of the Eagle Gold mine disaster after the mine’s owner failed to meet a deadline imposed by a mine inspector last week.
Yukon government officials say the berm is essential to allow for the installation of groundwater monitoring and interception wells to collect contaminated material for treatment, but work has been hampered by a forest fire along an access road to the mine.
Lauren Haney, Yukon’s deputy minister of energy, mines and resources, says the mine’s owner Victoria Gold was supposed to build an access road and the berm by this week, but the government has now engaged contractors to do the work.
Haney says those contractors are in a “holding pattern” until they can safely access the site, and the construction will take about two weeks.