Additionally, the company also offers a dry
tailings production and a stacking solution to increase the recovery of water, a critical resource in South Africa and around the world.
«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.
Not exact matches
The huge ramp - up in oilsands
production over the past decade — before the industry had worked out environmental bugs such as
tailings disposal — helped environmentalists paint a bull's - eye on the industry's back, says Lauerman.
Production at Cadia was halted on March 9 when one of the mine's two
tailings dams suffered a wall slide, and there were initially fears the New South Wales mine could be out of action for months.
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.
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.