Tag: Fort Chipewyan

  • It Will Cost Over $45 Billion To Clean Up Alberta Toxic Tailings Ponds

    It Will Cost Over $45 Billion To Clean Up Alberta Toxic Tailings Ponds

    The numbers are staggering. For over 50 years, the tars sands industry in Alberta has been producing a toxic brew of water, sand, silt and petrochemical waste products and storing them in what the industry refers to as “tailings ponds”.  And, the volumes are only growing – surpassing 1 TRILLION litres, covering an area greater…