Zinc producer Teck Cominco Ltd has agreed to pay up to $120 million for a wastewater pipeline to settle a lawsuit by Inupiat Eskimo villagers who claimed mine pollution was fouling their drinking water and the fish that are a staple of their diet. The settlement…ensures that waste from the Red Dog mine in Alaska will bypass the river that is the water and food source for residents...of Kivalina, said Luke Cole, the attorney representing the villagers…The 2004 lawsuit alleged that the Red Dog Mine had thousands of Clean Water Act violations in the late 1990s…Attorneys for Vancouver...based Teck Cominco were not immediately available for comment.