In 2014, a local state of emergency was declared as the mine near Likely, British Columbia, spilled 25 billion liters of toxic wastewater into waterways creating Canada’s largest disaster in history. Eight years later, no charges or fines have been laid and concerns are growing about the potential downstream consequences of British Columbia’s laxed mining regulations to American waterways.

Likely documents the aftermath of the 2014 dam breach — Canada's largest recorded environmental disaster — through the communities, and ecosystems left to absorb its consequences with no regulatory accountability in sight. Understanding what happened to those waterways required going into them: spending time in the landscape with scientists, Indigenous community members, and residents tracking ecological change that official assessments have minimized or ignored.

The Quesnel River feeds the Fraser, and the Fraser flows to the Pacific, the question of what 25 billion litres of mine waste does to a watershed over time is one with consequences well beyond British Columbia's borders.

Non-Fiction Feature
2026, 44 minutes, English
4K 1.9:1 , Colour, 5.1 Sound