The union that represents miners at Teck’s Elkview Mine says it warned the company and province about a series of accidents and explosions.
Now the United Steelworkers Union is demanding action before there is a fatality after several incidents recently at Teck’s steel-making coal mines in the Elk Valley, near the Alberta border.
The latest was an explosion last Wednesday afternoon in a coal dryer at the Elkview mine, which is just outside Sparwood, one of Teck’s five mines in the
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