By Staff Writer, MINING.COM
Elkview is one of Teck’s main steelmaking coal operations. (Image courtesy of Teck Resources.)
A legal action filed Thursday in Montana names Teck Coal Ltd. as one of three defendants in a request for judicial review by environmental groups in Montana and Idaho over levels of a contaminant from its British Columbia mines in US waters.
Montana Environmental Information Center, Clark Fork Coalition, Idaho Conservation League, and Idaho Rivers United petitioned the court, seeking declaratory relief from the Board of Environmental Review’s administrative ruling, saying that Montana state authorities illegally struck down a regulation that set limits for selenium in Lake Koocanusa, a lake crossing the border from British Columbia into Montana.
