The Vancouver Sun reports in its Wednesday edition that the Xatsull First Nation has filed a legal challenge against the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam, a decade after a similar storage site at the mine gave way, creating one of the province's largest environmental disasters. The Sun's Chuck Chiang writes that the first nation has filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court requesting a judicial review of the government decision to approve the raising of the dam by four metres without "meaningful" conversations with the nation. Chief Rhonda Phillips told a news conference in Vancouver on Tuesday that the province is allowing work at the Mount Polley tailing dam to proceed without an environmental assessment. "The Xatsull people have lived in what is now called the Cariboo region of British Columbia since time immemorial," Ms. Phillips said. "We have always been there, and our continuous occupation of that land must be respected and honoured." In August, 2014, a tailings dam at Imperial Metals' open-pit gold and copper mine in B.C.'s Cariboo region collapsed, spilling waste into nearby waterways. Changes were made in 2016 on how tailing ponds in the province are regulated following two reviews.