General | Acid Mine Drainage | Earthquakes
Groundwater & Aquifers | Salmon, Fish, & Aquaculture
Technical Reports | Toxics, Wastes & Health

General

CoalWatch Comox Valley Leaflet
February 2010

Raven Underground Coal Mine Backgrounder
Arthur Caldicott, Qualicum Beach, 16 Mar 2010

Guide to Processing a Mine Project Application under the British Columbia Mines Act
Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, 26 Nov 2009

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-Bickford, P.Geo., Colliery Geologist, 2001

Shining a Light on a Dangerous Method of Mining
Roger Smith, National Public Radio, 7 Aug 2007

Cradle to Grave: The Environmental Impacts from Coal
Clean Air Task Force, Boston, June 2001

Technical Bibliography of the Comox Coalfield
Gwyneth Cathyl-Bickford, P.Gep., 2000

CBC's On The Island with host Gregor Craigie
Interview with John Tapics of Compliance Energy, 14 Sep 2009
Interview with Arthur Caldicott, 15 Sep 2009

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.

Interactions of Acidic Metal-Rich Coal Pile Runoff with a Subsoil
Michael A Anderson et al, Environmental Science & Technology, Vol 25, No 12, 1991

Negative impact of abandoned coal mine workings on drinking water quality and the health of residents on Vancouver Island
Click here for a less legible and larger version, which includes appendices
Karla Biagioni, 2006

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 

Technical Reports

Technical Report, Raven Coal Property
Pincock, Allen & Holt, June 2009

Preliminary Assessment of an Underground Mining Operation on Compliance Energy Corporation’s Raven Coal Deposit
Peter Cain, Alan Craven, Sept 2007

Technical Report: Raven Coal Property
O.R. Cullingham, June 2007

Technical Report on the Tsable River Coal Property
Stephen L. Gardner, July 2001

Toxics, Wastes & Health

Ecological Integrity of Streams Related to Human Cancer Mortality Rates
Nathaniel P. Hitt and Martin Hendryx, EcoHealth, June 2010

Negative impact of abandoned coal mine workings on drinking water quality and the health of residents on Vancouver Island
Click here for the less legible and much larger version, which includes appendices
Karla Biagioni, 2006

Two Million Tonnes a Day: A Mine Waste Primer
MiningWatch Canada, 2009

- 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

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