Oil sands under fire

North American free trade panel says toxins leaking into groundwater; Canada’s environment minister taking findings ‘to heart’

Gary Park

for Petroleum News

A global environmental watchdog culminated two years of research by declaring there is compelling proof that tailings ponds in Alberta’s oil sands are contaminating groundwater. The Commission for Environmental Cooperation, CEC, which is charged with implementing a side accord to the North American....

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