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Water contamination at Alberta oilsands probed
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 days ago
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Environment Canada is investigating whether toxins from oilsands operations in Alberta are contaminating groundwater and surface water in the Athabasca region, Canwest News Service has learned. The top-ranking department official confirmed in a letter...
Tags: Suncor Energy Inc., Environment Canada, tailings pond, Athabasca River, Shell Canada, Alberta, Canada, Ottawa, Environment, Petroleum geology, Albian Sands, Oil sands, Joint ventures, Bituminous sands, Suncor Energy, Syncrude, Tailings
Syncrude pleads not guilty over duck deaths
Toronto :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility Albert, Alta. — Globe and Mail Update Last updated on Monday, Sep. PM EDT S yncrude Canada Ltd. has entered not guilty pleas in connection with environmental charges stemming from the deaths of 1,600 ducks last year in one of the company’s toxic oil...
Tags: Syncrude Canada Ltd., tailings pond, syncrude pleads, ducks deaths, Alberta, guilty plea, Canada, Toronto
Canadian oil sands duck kill tripled
Edmonton :: Canada | 8 months ago
Credibility A Canadian oil sands company now says more than 1,600 ducks died in an oily tailings pond last year, more than three times originally thought. Syncrude Chief Executive Officer Tom Katinas told reporters Tuesday many of the 1,606 ducks that died drowned...
Tags: Syncrude Canada Ltd., Tom Katinas, tailings pond, Syncrude Triple Initial Tally, originally estimate, oil sands, Alberta, ducks died, Alta, Fort McMurray-Athabasca
Syncrude charged in duck deaths
Edmonton :: Canada | 9 months ago
Credibility Fort McMurray. “This is the first of its kind for charges to be laid in this manner in Alberta,” Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner told reporters. The Alberta government announced the charge this morning under section 155 of the Alberta Environmental...
Tags: Syncrude Canada Ltd., Alberta Environmental Enhancement, Alberta Environmental Protection, tailings pond, Barack Obama, U.S
Man dies in Alta. oilsands tailings pond
Alta :: Norway | about 1 year ago
Credibility The machine then either slid or rolled into the water, flipping upside down and sinking to the bottom of the pond...A recovery team pulled his body out of the pond about 90 minutes later. Two Occupational Health and Safety investigators were on their...
Tags: horizon oilsands, tailings pond
Greenpeace breaks into oilsands operation
Calgary :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility A small group of Greenpeace activists has broken into a Syncrude Canada Ltd. operation in northern Alberta to draw attention to its campaign against oilsands development. The protesters say they have blocked a pipe that flows into the same Aurora North...
Tags: MT Syncrude Canada Ltd., Greenpeace, tailings pond, Alberta
Alta regulator proposes tougher rules governing oilsands tailings ponds
Calgary :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Alberta's energy regulator plans to tighten rules governing massive oilsands tailings ponds, including enforcement action if reclamation targets are not met. The new draft directive from Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board comes two months after...
Tags: tailings pond, Alberta, oilsands tailings
Greenpeace calls for inquiry into Alta. duck deaths
Edmonton :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility He said the province must also take responsibility for the incident at the Syncrude Canada Ltd., tailings pond. "The premier holding Syncrude to account and not holding his own government to account is definitely a flaw in serving the public interest,"...
Tags: tailings pond
Dead ducks raising concerns in northeast Alberta
Edmonton :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility MT Some northeast Alberta residents are raising questions about whether oilsands companies are doing enough to protect the environment after about 500 migratory ducks died at a giant toxic waste pond near Fort McMurray.
Tags: Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta Hospital, northeast Alberta, Syncrude Canada Ltd., Stephen Harper, tailings pond, prime minister, minister stephen, oil sands, heart centre
Ducks dying after landing in toxic pond
Edmonton :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Officials in Canada say they are investigating why deterrents did not keep hundreds of ducks out of a tailings pond, leaving them oil-covered and dying. The migratory birds landed Monday in the toxic waste pond at the Aurora North Site mine north of Fort...
Tags: Federation of Alberta Naturalists, tailings pond, Syncrude Canada Ltd, syncrude tailings, oilsands wastes, toxic wastes, northern alberta
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