The Alberta government has announced a $50-million competition that aims to drive the development of technologies that reduce ...

Canada’s second largest oil company Suncor Energy Inc. found 32 dead birds at one of its oil sands mining operations and now faces additional scrutiny from regulators and investors as it seeks ...

After decades of tailings management being left to companies and the AER, they want the federal government to take a broader view of how tailings ponds will be reclaimed and who will pay for it.

Large enough to be seen from space, tailings ponds in Alberta’s oil sands region are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. They contain a toxic slurry of heavy metals and ...

Canada's oil sands mining industry on Thursday outlined proposals to release treated water from tailings ponds into northern Alberta's Athabasca River, a move environmental groups say risks ...

1968 Naming one of its tailings ponds “Turquoise Lake,” Molycorp stocks it with 2,000 pounds of trout and ... 1977 Union Oil of California (Unocal), the ninth largest oil company in the world ...

Those releases are “safely stored in specifically sited, engineered, constructed and permitted facilities,” Champo said, including tailings ponds just north of Magna and east of The Great Saltair.

May 15 (Reuters) - The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) said on Sunday it was monitoring the situation after 27 waterfowl were found dead at one of Suncor Energy Inc's SU.TO oilsands tailings ponds.

The tailings ponds, ... In the most recent case, 32 waterfowl died in May 2023 in a Suncor pond. The biggest toll was in 2008, when 1,600 ducks died after landing in a Syncrude pond.

Canada’s tar sands are the fourth-largest oil deposit in the world, but separating the bitumen creates large volumes of toxic wastewater, which is stored in tailings ponds that now cover 270 ...

EDMONTON – A major oilsands producer has been fined after hundreds of birds, wolves and coyotes were exposed to toxins at one of its tailings ponds. The Alberta Energy Regulator has assessed a f ...