Sentences with phrase «tailings clean»

(Again) to High - Level Waste at WIPP; Reclaiming the Land: History of Uranium Mill Tailings Clean - up; Mitchell Capitan & Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining Take Their Message to the International Stage; Karamken: An Abandoned Gold Facility Shows Need for Reclamation in Russia; Harris Arthur is SRIC's New Navajo Community Liason

Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC) has been advocating for effective uranium mill tailings clean - up for more than 25 years.

Not exact matches

The oilsands industry has made important strides in recent years at cleaning up tailings ponds and reducing its fresh water use.

«We would agree that Alberta's historic focus on maximizing oilsands production... rather than optimizing production on the highest quality ore may be having unnecessary environmental impacts on things like greenhouse gas intensity and tailings production and lowering returns to Albertans as the owners of the resource,» said Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think - tank.

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.

The rest is industrial refuse, including mine tailings, agricultural waste, construction debris, and exotics like «pickle liquor,» an acid solution used to clean steel.

Pipkin grew up in Monticello, where a uranium mill operated for 20 years until closing in 1960, leaving a pile of tailings and contamination that became a Superfund clean - up site in 1986.

Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons globally as well as local stores of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to reduce air pollution in New Delhi as well as treating arsenic in well water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia; reducing mercury vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.

Voices from the Earth, Spring 2004: Moquino Community Gets Involved in Uranium Mill Tailings Decision; Not in My Backyard... Not in Anyone's; and Judge Rules: Mining Clean - up Plan «Deficient»

The tailings ponds where the cleaned sand is returned look ugly for a few years but are eventually reclaimed into grasslands.

The researchers found woefully inadequate reclamation progress, astonishing rates of toxic tailings creation and no proven way to clean them up.