Regulator Fines Engineers 8 Years After Mount Polley Disaster in BC

Contents from a tailings pond is pictured going down the Hazeltine Creek into Quesnel Lake near the town of Likely, B.C. on Aug. 5, 2014. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

Three engineers have been disciplined nearly eight years after one of Canada’s worst mining catastrophes.

Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia, a provincial regulatory and licensing body, said in a statement that its years-long investigation into the Mount Polley disaster was among its most complex cases.