They should have to put up a huge, long term, refundable bond that can be drawn on to remediate environmental damage for the next several decades.
There are 100+ year old gold mines in northern Canada that are an environmental problem and the companies (and super wealthy families) that benefited are long gone. We should switch to a model that assumes the rich are externalizing long term costs and collect money from them upfront to pay for those costs.
There are 100+ year old gold mines in northern Canada that are an environmental problem and the companies (and super wealthy families) that benefited are long gone. We should switch to a model that assumes the rich are externalizing long term costs and collect money from them upfront to pay for those costs.