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Alberta to Create Standards for Releasing Oilsands Tailings Into Environment
Alberta's new standards aim to manage 1.4 trillion litres of oil sands tailings safely, involving Indigenous and local communities in monitoring efforts, officials said.
- Alberta established a committee in 2024 to come up with options to better manage the water in oil sands tailings ponds in the province's north.
- Alberta has since earmarked $50-million to boost technologies that can help reduce and manage tailings ponds, with the cash coming from the province's carbon price on large emitters.
- Multiple cases of spills and leaks from tailings ponds have been reported by oil companies in recent years, with incidents at sites like Imperial Oil Ltd.'s Kearl and Suncor's Fort Hills oil sands project.
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Alberta to create standards for releasing oilsands tailings into environment
EDMONTON — The Alberta government is planning to create standards for releasing treated oilsands tailings into the environment. Creating those standards is one of four new policy recommendations pitched by a government-appointed committee tasked over a year ago with studying tailings management options. Tailings are mixture of water, sand, bitumen residue and chemicals considered toxic […]
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Alberta government to create standards for releasing oil tailings into environment
EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it will begin creating standards for releasing treated oil tailings into the environment.
·Prince George, Canada
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