Sentences with phrase «filled tailings»
«Your oil is really dirty», they say, flashing National Geographic photographs of birds and bitumen - filled tailings ponds.
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It has been used extensively to help mining companies figure out how sediment from tailings will fill up their storage ponds.
The indoor radon action levels for US homes and schools were adopted in response to the use of radioactive uranium mill tailings sand in construction and soil fill for homes and schools in the western US; recognized in the 1970's as one of the first direct community health risks from the process of uranium mining.
I expected black, dead land filled with tailings but instead found lush hills and thick copses of trees turning gold and red, with large birds cartwheeling overhead.
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.