General | Acid Mine Drainage | Earthquakes | Groundwater & Aquifers | Salmon, Fish, & Aquaculture | Toxics

General

CoalWatch Comox Valley Leaflet
February 2010

Raven Underground Coal Mine Backgrounder
Arthur Caldicott, 11 Feb 2010

What's Wrong with Coal
Arthur Caldicott, Watershed Sentinel, Jan-Feb 2010

Quinsam Coal's Watershed History
Quentin Dodd, Watershed Sentinel, Jan-Feb 2010

Getting the Coal, Down in the Hole:
a virtual underground tour
Gwyneth Cathyl, P.Geo., Colliery Geologist, 2001

Acid Mine Drainage

- drainage flowing from or caused by surface mining, deep mining or coal refuse piles that is typically highly acidic with elevated levels of dissolved metals

Acid Mine Drainage
First Nations Environmental Health Innovation Network, 2008

Acid Mine Drainage - Mining and Water Issues in BC
Environmental Mining Council of BC
- informative, but the case studies are dated.

The Public Health Effects Of Abandoned Coal Mine Workings On Residents In South Wellington, Nanaimo
Karla Biagioni, 2003

Negative impact of abandoned coal mine workings on drinking water quality and the health of residents on Vancouver Island
Karla Biagioni, 2006 (20 mb)

Earthquakes

- the potential hazard or damage from a seismic event is more highly correlated with the intensity of shaking which takes place at the surface, than it is to the magnitude of the earthquake at its epicentre. Surface shaking is measured as Modified Maxilli Intensity (MMI) and magnitude is measured on the better-known Richter scale.

Earthquakes Canada

Relative Hazard from Earthquakes in Southwest BC

100 year earthquake probability map of BC

5 year earthquake incident map of southwest BC

Probabilities Of Significant Earthquake Shaking In Communities Across British Columbia: Implications For Emergency Management
Tuna ONUR1, and Mark R. SEEMANN2, 2004

Groundwater and Aquifers

Living Water Smart: Water Act Modernization
A good introduction to groundwater and aquifers

Salmon, Fish, & Aquaculture

Aquaculture economics for BC and other Canadian provinces
(includes fish farms and mollusks), DFO

The Community Mapping Network

Map Guide from Project Watershed Society

Fisheries Information Summary System
Fisheries Information Data Queries (FIDQ),
Lake and Stream Individual Fish Data
BC Ministry of Environment 

Toxics

- fact sheets from the First Nations Environmental Health Innovation Network, the Center for Science in Public Participation, and other sources, 2008, all available on www.landkeepers.ca

Acid Mine Drainage | Arsenic | Bioaccumulation of Contaminants | Cadmium | Copper | Trace Elements in Mining Waste | Lead | Mercury in Fish | Selenium |