Oil sands tailings ponds are engineered dam and dyke systems used to capture oil sand tailings. Oil sand tailings contain a mixture of salts, suspended...

what is in the oil sands tailings ponds. Ninety percent of the tailings water can be reused for oil extraction. By 2009 as tailing ponds continued to proliferate...

estimate" of how long most tailings dams will need to maintain structural integrity. Oil sands tailings ponds (Canada) Ash pond Morgenstern, Norbert R. (19–20...

(EPAs) such as tailing pond water and greenhouse gases, "Tailings are the sand, silt, clay, soil and water found naturally in oil sands that remain following...

volumes of tailings are a byproduct of surface mining of the oil sands and managing these tailings are one of the most damaging aspects of tar sands. The Government...

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an autobiographical comic by Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton. Published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2022, Ducks is an...

a tailings pond. "Canadian Natural Resources - Horizon Oil Sands". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2012-12-25. "The Horizon Oil Sands...

The Kearl Oil Sands Project is an oil sands mine in the Athabasca Oil Sands region at the Kearl Lake area, about 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Fort McMurray...

animals. Tailings ponds are used to store the waste made from separating minerals from rocks, or the slurry produced from tar sands mining. Tailings are sometimes...

as tailing pond water and greenhouse gases. One of the major challenges facing COSIA is the treatment of oil sands tailings pond water. "Tailings are...

extraction with its massive trucks, tailings ponds. By 2005, the petroleum industry in Canada began a major shift as oil producers renewed an interest in...

Énergie) is a Canadian integrated energy company based in Calgary, Alberta. It specializes in production of synthetic crude from oil sands. In the 2020...

near the Athabasca Oil Sands, to participate in the walk. Native elders from all over North America led people past lakes of tailings, wastewater, and infrastructure...

leave tailings, ponds containing hydrocarbon sludge, in some cases. The same applies to much of the Middle East's undeveloped conventional oil reserves...

froth treatment, water management, oil sands tailings ponds, and upgrading, according to a 2004 article in the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (CJCE)...

AOS tailings pond water, but repeated exposure may have adverse health effects." Naphthenic acids are present in Athabasca oil sands and tailings pond water...

growing: Alberta's tailings ponds" (PDF). June 2017. Retrieved 2024-06-19. "The Biggest Barrier to Climate Action in Canada: The Oil and Gas Lobby". Environmental...

representations of Canada as an energy superpower. These critics raised concerns about the environmental footprint of Canada's oil sands (e.g., tailing ponds, air pollution...

a number of sources including the oil and gas industry with the oil sands tailings ponds, oil spills and tailings dam failures, pipelines, reclamation...

against authorizing the "discharge of treated effluence" from oil sands tailings ponds into the Athabasca River with new regulations at both the provincial...

156H. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00522.x. PMID 18559016. "Tailings Ponds". Canada's Oil Sands. Archived from the original on 2019-11-13. Retrieved 2019-03-25...

chemicals are especially dangerous when stored in water in ponds behind tailings dams. These ponds are also vulnerable to major breaches or leaks from the...

of all existing ERCB directives such as Directive 074 regarding oil sands tailings ponds performance dated 3 February 2009, now carry the AER logo. As of...

aquatic ecosystems. Leftover waste from tar sands processing, known as tailings, is stored in large ponds. These ponds pose a risk of leakage, which can contaminate...

Suncor spilled 9.8 million liters of oil sands waste water into the Athabaska river. The oil sands tailings ponds are in close proximity to the river drastically...

rubber-stamped another oil sands mega-project in the absence of clear answers about how to restore wetlands, rehabilitate toxic tailings ponds, protect migratory...

McMurrayand the Athabasca oil sands. Alberta has two main east–west corridors. The southern corridor, part of the Trans-Canada Highway system, enters the...

as they apply to the oil sands. In their 2012 report ECRB cautioned that oil sands operators failed to convert their tailings ponds into deposits suitable...

Alberta Government Telephones Alberta Liquor Control Board (ALCB) Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority (AOSTRA) Northern Alberta Railways Alberta...

apply to its oil sands applications, including increased oil yield, a simplified process flow, reduction of bitumen losses to tailings, elimination of...