The only questions are when and where. This incident comes eight months after a dam wall failed at a mine tailings reclamation facility at Baia Mare in northwestern Romania, spilling tons of cyanide laced waste water down the rivers of Eastern Europe to the Black Sea. But the WWF says it is long past time for new, stricter European Union legislation governing the control of mining waste. Hungarian fishermen collect dead fish from the Tizsa River after the Baia Mare cyanide spill last January. The accident in Sweden shows that too many mining waste dams, east and west, are not properly built or maintained.
New legislation is needed before another disaster strikes.
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