Sentences with phrase «tailings ponds»

New Democrat leader John Horgan spoke with CBC On The Island from Williams Lake after visiting the devastation caused by the Mount Polley mine tailings pond failure.

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.

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 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...

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 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.

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.

Environmental Law and Litigation Oil Sands tailings pond management not meeting environmental targets The Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board has released its 2012 Tailings Management Assessment Report, Oil Sands Mining Industry.

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.

11 Million Litres: the Tar Sands» Leaking Legacy CBC News — Millions of litres leak each day from oilsands tailings ponds: report by Environmental Defence

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

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

The system boundary for their lifecycle analysis included direct consumption of all primary fuels and electricity at production sites; processing of gas for H2 generation; emissions associated with direct land - use change; flaring from upgraders; emissions from tailings ponds (for mining); upstream emissions from natural gas production; emissions from crude bitumen batteries from in situ production; and emissions from directly producing the fuels in both mining and in situ production.

Environmental Law and Litigation Oil Sands tailings pond management not meeting environmental targets The Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board has released its 2012 Tailings Management Assessment Report, Oil Sands Mining Industry... [more]

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)

«This is an unprecedented catastrophe and the public is rightly concerned about risks to the province's other tailings ponds.

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.

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.

Consequently, oil sands mines are surrounded by vast tailings ponds....

Tests indicate that the wastewater Suncor leaked from the tar sands tailings pond did not meet Alberta's Surface Water Guidelines and did not pass Alberta's rainbow trout acute toxicity test.

In addition, innovations in tailings pond management and regulations that increase reclamation rates while reducing tailings themselves are due for 2012.

Add to this that industry is speeding up reclamation of tailings ponds though the Oil Sands Tailing Consortium (a collaboration of the mining companies to share tailings resource and technology) and it would seem that the industry could do no wrong.

«Non-aqueous extraction,» which some call «dry cleaning» the oil sands, is an emerging technology that could dramatically reduce the use of water and virtually eliminate the need for wet tailings ponds — a monumental step in modern oil sands production.

Tailings ponds contain a number of toxins that can leak into the groundwater or the Athabasca River.

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.

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government needs to take responsibility for deregulation that led to the disastrous Mount Polley tailings pond failure, New Democrats said in the legislature today.

These arrived just as governments and industry belatedly came to grips with their PR challenges and responded with improved environmental practices, particularly in the area of tailings ponds.

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.

Further south, concentrations of magnetite give the Empire Mine tailings pond its bluish appearance.

The unmanned vehicles made by Clearpath Robotics are more likely to be found navigating an oilsands tailings pond.

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.

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

«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 %.

There will also be fact pieces by the Pembina Institute and CAPP about the details of the mining operations (including SAGD - Steam - Assisted Gravity Drainage, open pit mines, water usage, tailings ponds, reclamation, and more).

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.

«The Liberal government knew for four years there were problems with this tailings pond, but they deliberately suppressed the information,» said Horgan.

«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.

New Democrat environment spokesperson Spencer Chandra Herbert said the premier's plan to use conservation officers to investigate the tailings pond failure makes no sense.

New Democrat leader John Horgan was at the disaster site on Wednesday and Thursday calling for a fully independent inquiry and for the B.C. Liberals to the release all records and reports on the development, monitoring, and enforcement of the tailings pond and dam within the week.

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.

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.