A smelter company in British Columbia is being attacked by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is a United States based program. The reason the EPA is attacking the smelter company in British Columbia, Canada, is because the pollution created by smelting is polluting the United States portion of the Columbia River. The company titled Teck Cominico is seeking a diplomatic solution. The company is going through the Canadian Government to deal with the US Government counterparts. The smelting operation produces 10 to 20 million tons of slag each year, slag is the pollution produced by pollution which contains lead, arsenic and mercury. The slag once in the river in Canada flows down into the Columbia river portion titled Lake Roosevelt, which is used by over 1 million boaters, swimmers and fishers a year.
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