Study Confirms Tar Sands Contamination First Nations Warned of for Years
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A scarecrow at a tailings pond in Alberta in 2010. (Photo: NWFblogs/cc/flickr)
A new study puts the spotlight on tar sands’ threat to one of the planet’s precious and increasingly scarce resources—water.
The study by Environment Canada shows that tailings ponds, open ’lakes’ that hold toxic bi-products from tar sands mining, are leaching into groundwater and contaminating Alberta’s Athabasa River.
The federal research was published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.