Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reached three settlements with Kensington gold mine totaling $534,500 for discharge violations documented in a 2015.
Kensington is an underground gold mine that’s operated 35 miles south of Haines since 2010.
In a joint inspection, the EPA and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) found violations including: 200 wastewater violations, unauthorized acid rock drainage into a nearby lake, and failure to report releases of a nitrate compound…
