"The glitter from all that gold is long gone, but the vast legacy of poison it left behind is forever.

Regulators are finally considering a proposal to clean up Yellowknife's Giant Mine, long one of Canada's worst contaminated sites and Environment Canada's single largest remediation project.

But that plan, despite its half-billion-dollar budget, will only freeze the mine's mind-boggling toxic stockpile in place, not remove it."

The Canadian Press had the story December 5, 2010. [2]