Sentences with phrase «of tailings ponds»

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.

Even in the handling of tailings ponds, things are not what they seem.

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.

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.

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 %.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«Your oil is really dirty», they say, flashing National Geographic photographs of birds and bitumen - filled tailings ponds.

There will also be lots of jobs in trying to clean up the tailings ponds and despoiled landscape of the Athabasca.

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.

«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.

Tailing Ponds It has been one year since a breach of a containment pond at the Obed Mine spilled 670 million litres of toxic tailings into the Athabasca River and its tributaries.

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.

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...

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.

The restoration program includes an extensive array of collection («extraction») and injection well lines, collections drains and trenches in and around the largely reclaimed tailings piles and lined evaporation ponds as shown on Figure 1 to this paper.

Plus the tar sands operations have gigantic tailings and wastewater ponds which are loaded with various types of petrochemicals.

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.

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.

The Fort McKay First Nation is under contract to manage a herd of bison on a reclaimed tailings pond.

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

In that case, the dam holding the tailings pond broke, sending 10 million cubic metres of debris into nearby lakes and streams.

The elephant in the room has always been the effluent, Tailings Ponds, which grow in conjunction with the processing of the Bitumen.