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'So late in the game' — Feds spend $12.5 M to study the tragedies of cancer downstream of oil sands
09 Aug 2024 14:12 GMT
… nations downstream of the oilsands have received funding to understand … (NAs) that accumulate in oilsands tailing ponds and have been found to … map the contaminates from the oilsands. The money will be … ponds from the Kearl’s oilsands mine near Fort McMurray, …
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Feds fund health study for Indigenous communities near oilsands
09 Aug 2024 15:10 GMT
… trace potential contaminants from oilsands operations to better understand … better regulate releases from oilsands and a Crown-Indigenous … no new licenses for tailing ponds issues until we find … solutions to the existing tailing ponds that we have,” Guilbeault …
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Feds free up money to study health of Indigenous communities downstream of oilsands
08 Aug 2024 14:26 GMT
… communities downstream of oilsands. #Pollution #Oilsands #Indigenous #CDNPoli
Documents … at its Kearl oilsands facility in 2023,… regulate releases from oilsands and a Crown-Indigenous … tailing ponds issues until we find solutions to the existing tailing ponds …
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Feds fund health study for Indigenous communities downstream of oilsands
07 Aug 2024 18:12 GMT
… trace potential contaminants from oilsands operations to better understand … better regulate releases from oilsands and a Crown-Indigenous … no new licenses for tailing ponds issues until we find … solutions to the existing tailing ponds that we have,” Guilbeault …
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Canada’s oil sands emit 6300% more pollutants than previously thought
02 Feb 2024 13:28 GMT
… the air molecules at the oil sands, factoring out the greenhouse … of Canada’s biggest oil sands companies stated that the ECCC … most concerning would be tailing ponds wherein the leftover solution … The development of the oil sands has brought about damage to …
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Opinion: The stakes for solving oilsands tailing ponds could not be higher
22 Apr 2023 12:18 GMT
Article content The numbers that describe oilsands tailings are so big that they almost lose meaning. Right now, tailings ponds cover roughly 300 square kilometres of boreal forest in northern Alberta — nearly half the size of Edmonton and one-third the …
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Feds to investigate chemicals in oilsands tailings
31 May 2024 13:34 GMT
… of a harmful compound in oilsands tailings after the Athabasca Chipewyan … . Naphthenic acids (NAs) accumulate in oilsands tailing ponds — which currently hold at least …
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Scientists say Kearl oilsands tailing pond spills were harmful to fish
13 Mar 2023 22:35 GMT
Breadcrumb Trail Links National The company and the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) had both insisted no wildlife had been harmed when the leaks were made public in early February. A tailings pond at Imperial Oil's Kearl Lake oilsands operation north of …
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Scientists say Kearl oilsands tailing pond spills were harmful to fish
13 Mar 2023 21:17 GMT
Breadcrumb Trail Links National The company and the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) had both insisted no wildlife had been harmed when the leaks were made public in early February. A tailings pond at Imperial Oil's Kearl Lake oilsands operation north of …
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Feds to study toxicity of oilsands tailings
31 May 2024 00:35 GMT
… a harmful compound in oilsands tailings after the … acids (NAs) accumulate in oilsands tailing ponds — which currently hold at … Nation.
Vast quantities of oilsands tailings have long been … cumulative health impacts of oilsands tailings. An initial proposal …