WTF Canada!

The concentrations of selenium and nitrate entering the Elk River and Northwest Montana’s Kootenai watershed due to coal-mining operations in British Columbia are likely without measured precedent, according to a new study authored by U.S. Geological Survey scientists.

The mining-related growth of selenium, nitrate, and sulfate concentrations in the Elk River “are among the largest documented increases in the primary literature,” the researchers write. 

LINK (via Montana Free Press)