from the UN document...
There is no publicly accessible inventory of tailings dams,
however, one estimate has put the number of tailings dams
at 3,500. This is likely an underestimate since there could
be more than 30,000 industrial mines.
• The global volume of stored tailings is also unknown but
recent disasters illustrate the potential scale of accidents.
For example, the Mount Polley and Samarco failures in 2014
and 2015 each respectively released more than 25 million
cubic metres of tailings into the environment. Combined,
this represents enough material to fill more than 20,000
Olympic swimming pools.
Kinda goes along with what the "sensationalist" article is reporting on. Those "activists" sure are a bunch of bad guys making stuff up every chance they get... lol,
Maybe a better alternate headline might be
Canada has world class reporting and tracking standards, yet still has a pretty ****** mining record in the world when it comes to mine tailings safety.
And yes, one is too many. So why the F are we seeing so many?