The company behind a shuttered gold mine in Moose River, N.S., is at odds with the province about how to clean up the site.A drone image of the open pit at Atlantic Gold's Touquoy gold mine in Moose River, N.S. The company behind a shuttered gold mine in Moose River, N.S., is at odds with the province about how to clean up the site.
The letter, released by Nova Scotia's Environmental Registry to the Halifax Examiner and reviewed by CBC News, says the company had a "sincere desire to move forward with reclamation of the Touquoy mine." "No wonder all other metalliferous mines have simply avoided this natural step for a mine site and instead sought to move into a perpetual care and maintenance coma."The letter says the conditions set for water quality in the lakes and rivers around the mine cannot be met and therefore expose the company to "prosecution for non-compliances.