Sentences with phrase «mine tailings pond»
The oilsands industry has made important strides in recent years at cleaning up tailings ponds and reducing its fresh water use.
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«We said we'd be the first in the industry to reclaim a tailings pond, and we delivered.»
In other words, most current and future expansion in the oilsands will be in situ projects, and these will not be encumbered by two of the three biggest knocks against the oilsands: radical surface disruption and tailings ponds.
If hoary giant Suncor can green yesteryear's tailings ponds, though, change on a grand scale is possible — perhaps sooner than we think.
Attacking tailings accumulated over that entire period, Suncor has reclaimed its first pond, is working on another two and has five more it plans to drain over the next two decades, expecting to reduce the surface area of its tailings ponds by about 80 %.
A court ruling this year against Syncrude Canada in the 2008 death of 1,600 waterfowl threw the existence of tailings ponds into a legal grey area that could expose mine operators to future lawsuits.
«Your oil is really dirty», they say, flashing National Geographic photographs of birds and bitumen - filled tailings ponds.
A Pembina Institute study from 2009 estimated the costs to reclaim what was then 686 square miles of oil sands developments and 170 square miles of tailings ponds would run as high as $ 15 billion.
There will also be lots of jobs in trying to clean up the tailings ponds and despoiled landscape of the Athabasca.
I believe Alberta citizens are victims as they will be dealing with abandoned wells, tailings ponds and massive environmental degradation for decades and the industry will not be paying those bills!
The cost of reclaiming over 300,000 oil and gas wells in Alberta likely exceeds $ 70 billion, and the cost of cleaning up the toxic tailings ponds and other damage at the oil sands could reach similar levels.
«Premier Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals briefly swooped into Likely several days after the tailings pond failure assuring the town everything was all right, but then disappeared as the bad news rolled in,» said New Democrat leader John Horgan.
«The tailings pond failure at Mount Polley Mine may be the worst industrial accident in B.C. I've seen in my lifetime and Premier Clark and the Liberal government need to be held accountable for their role in it,» said New Democrat leader John Horgan.
And given that Minister Bill Bennett promised to resign if it was found his ministry had information about this tailings pond, I think the question has to be asked: is the minister being protected by withholding this information?»
«Four years later, the tailings pond dam failed, and 25 million cubic metres of effluent spilled into the watershed.
The premier also promised the people of Likely that she would stand «shoulder to shoulder» with them in the wake of the Mount Polley tailings pond failure.
VICTORIA — New Democrat Leader John Horgan is calling for the resignation of Minister of Energy and Mines Bill Bennett after B.C.'s Auditor General blamed failures in his ministry for the tailings pond breach at Mount Polley.
VANCOUVER — The report from an expert panel of engineers confirms that the Mount Polley tailings pond failure was avoidable, but leaves British Columbians with more questions than answers, said New Democrat leader John Horgan.
Bill 204 — Justice System Monitoring Act (Heather Forsyth) Bill 205 — Municipal Government (Delayed Construction) Amendment Act, 2011 (Dave Taylor) Bill 208 — Health Statutes (Canada Health Act Reaffirmation) Amendment Act, 2011 (Brian Mason) Bill 209 — Tailings Ponds Reclamation Statutes Amendment Act, 2011 (Laurie Blakeman)
At one point, the province was left with just one geotechnical engineer and emails released through freedom of information requests showed that staff within the environment ministry had raised warnings that low staffing levels were leading to increased risks, citing tailings pond inspections as a particular area of concern.
VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal decision to appoint a panel to conduct an independent investigation of the Mount Polley tailings pond failure is a good first step says New Democrat mining spokesperson Norm Macdonald.
That's why the devastating breach of the Mount Polley Mine tailings pond and dam last...
VICTORIA — New Democrat Leader John Horgan released the following statement following the Mount Polley Mine tailings pond breach: «This breach has the potential to have a devastating effect on people, livestock and wild animals in the region for many...
VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberals must release any and all documents related to the Mount Polley Mine tailings pond and dam, say B.C.'s New Democrats.
According to a report from the ERCB released in June not only are the tailings ponds not disappearing they are actually growing in size.
The Rosia Montana project needs its tailings pond to be situated on the valley of the Corna River, whose course would have to be deviated.
Further south, concentrations of magnetite give the Empire Mine tailings pond its bluish appearance.
«No tailings pond, no worries about contaminated groundwater.»
On the property we have a full production facility already built which includes an open pit mine, processing facility, tailings pond, power and easy access to roads.
For instance, if a mining company's tailings pond recently collapsed, it could be on the hook for expensive environmental damages not reflected on its balance sheet.
It must heat several barrels of water to strip the bitumen from the sand and upgrade it, and afterward it discharges contaminated water into tailings ponds like the one near Mildred Lake.
A tailings pond near Fort McMurray, Alberta, where the oil sands boom has faded because of low oil prices.
Consequently, oil sands mines are surrounded by vast tailings ponds....
Sources of air contaminant emissions from oil sands developments include industrial smokestacks, tailings ponds, transportation, and dust from mining operations.
Note the tailings pond behind the huge yellow piles of sulphur, a by - product of bitumen upgrading.
Even in the handling of tailings ponds, things are not what they seem.
Every tailings pond will be reclaimed in a similar manner when operations have been completed.
The tailings ponds where the cleaned sand is returned look ugly for a few years but are eventually reclaimed into grasslands.
The Fort McKay First Nation is under contract to manage a herd of bison on a reclaimed tailings pond.
Their migration route intersects with areas leased to and developed by oil sands companies, including the surface mineable area and its associated facilities, mine pits and tailings ponds.
From toxic tailings ponds that already cover 130 square kilometres, to fresh water use and the direct impacts of digging 100 metre open pit mines over thousands of square kilometres of boreal forest, the report details the environmental problems and other challenges that oil sands mining poses to northern Alberta.
Oil - sands production emits roughly three times the carbon dioxide of conventional light - oil production and the strip - mining operations involved destroy the landscape in northern Alberta, creating large tailings ponds filled with toxic wastewater.
11 Million Litres: the Tar Sands» Leaking Legacy CBC News — Millions of litres leak each day from oilsands tailings ponds: report by Environmental Defence
Its plans for the new Conga Mine included draining the lake and converting it into a tailings pond to collect the toxic mining byproducts, such as cyanide and arsenic.
Incredibly, Kinder Morgan has agreed to move the existing pipeline should the Ajax mine move forward, to allow for tailings ponds, while the company continues to refuse to address impacts on SSN's rights and title.
In that case, the dam holding the tailings pond broke, sending 10 million cubic metres of debris into nearby lakes and streams.
The Salish Sea Summer Gathering brought together people in B.C. protesting Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Pipeline and the recent tailings pond breach at Mount Polley Mine.
It's as if pollution on the coast, or in the mountains, is all there is, and the 100 square kilometers (plus) of Tailings Ponds is in another universe called northern Alberta.
The elephant in the room has always been the effluent, Tailings Ponds, which grow in conjunction with the processing of the Bitumen.
Not exact matches
This time the company dredged up the stubborn mature fine tailings after just three years of settling in the pond, added a polymer and pumped it onto a sloping beach to dry — which it now did, to a chunky clay, in a matter of weeks.