August 24, 2015
A Canadian mining company asked a Washington federal judge Friday to dismiss a tribal association's claims for $9.2 million incurred while responding to the company's dumping of pollutants into the Columbia River, saying that federal law bars the recovery of attorneys' fees in private suits.
August 06, 2015
Canadian mining company Teck Resources Ltd. has asked the Ninth Circuit to rule that a Washington tribal association can't bring allegations related to airborne pollutants the association claims settled downwind in the Columbia River, saying the claims are blocked by a decision the appellate court made last year.
December 17, 2012
A Washington federal judge on Friday found mining company Teck Resources Ltd. liable for costs incurred by the state government and an Indian tribe related to Teck's dumping of hazardous pollutants into the Columbia River.
September 11, 2012
Teck Resources Ltd. admitted Monday that hazardous substances in waste it intentionally dumped into the Columbia River from its Canadian smelter are leaching into the Washington state environment, but argued a suit brought by state and tribal governments is improperly trying to pin the mining company under U.S. environmental law.
July 12, 2012
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday denied Teck Resources Ltd.'s attempt to appeal a Washington federal judge's ruling that the mining company will be fully responsible for cleanup costs if it is found to have deposited pollutants into the upper Columbia River, in an environmental lawsuit brought by state and tribal governments.
April 05, 2012
A Washington state federal judge ruled Wednesday that mining company Teck Resources Ltd. will be fully responsible for cleanup costs if it is found to have deposited pollutants into the upper Columbia River in an environmental lawsuit brought by state and tribal governments.
June 23, 2009
A judge has dismissed Teck Cominco Metals Ltd.'s liability counterclaims against a group of American Indian tribes in northern Washington that alleges the Canadian mine company contaminated a local lake, ruling that the tribes do not count as "persons" under the federal law regulating the Superfund program.