The former CEO of a defunct B.C. mining company has been found guilty of 13 environmental violations in relation to waste discharges from a northwest B.C. mine in late 2014.
On July 7, Judge David Patterson’s decision found that Benjamin Mossman was “actively or passively involved” in the Yellow Giant mine exceeding permitted amounts of zinc and other substances in the woods and wetlands surrounding it on multiple occasions. The Crown had initially charged Mossman with 23 violations.
Mossman was the former CEO of Banks Island Gold Ltd., which oversaw the Yellow Giant mine on Banks Island, 120 kilometres south of Prince Rupert, B.C., in the Hecate Strait, about 718 kilometres west of Prince
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