Auditor General Carol Bellringer says British Columbia's government is not doing a good job protecting the environment from potential mining disasters. In a report that took two years, Bellringer says that monitoring of B-C's mines is inadequate. (Mines Minister Bill Bennett says the government accepts the recommendations in Bellringer's audit but balks at her call for an independent oversight office to keep watch on the industry.-)

Date: 2016-05-03
Placeline: VICTORIA.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 21 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << we concluded that the ministry of energy and mines and the ministry of environment compliance and enforcement activities of the mining sector are inadequate to protect the privacy of significant environmental risk almost all of our expectations for a robust compliance and enforcement program we're not net >>

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