She feels like communities are stuck because they oppose the release of the tailings water, but the status quo is also unacceptable because of the seepage and dam failure risks of tailings ponds.

ALBERT, Alberta (Reuters) - A judge found Syncrude Canada Ltd, Canada's largest oil sands producer, guilty on Friday in the deaths of 1,600 ducks that landed on a toxic Northern Alberta tailings ...

A duck mired in a tailings pond at a Syncrude oilsands mining site in April 2008, in an image from video taken by a government biologist. ((Government of Alberta)) Oilsands giant Syncrude Canada ...

That’s a big concern because the Peace-Athabasca delta already faces acute environmental pressures from industry, dams and climate ... 1,600 ducks died in a Syncrude tailings pond.

A judge has accepted a sentencing deal, which will see oil giant Syncrude pay $3 million in penalties for the deaths of 1,600 waterfowl on one of the company's tailings ponds back in 2008.

The AER said 122 waterfowl died after coming into contact with toxic ponds, known as tailings ponds, at Canadian Natural Resources Limited's Horizon project, Suncor Energy's site, and at Syncrude ...

EDMONTON – The slow death of 500 ducks on a toxic oilsands tailings pond in northern Alberta last April has led to federal and provincial charges against Syncrude Canada Ltd. Images of the dead ...

EDMONTON Syncrude Canada now estimates at least 350 birds have died after landing on one of its toxic tailings ponds in northern Alberta. And the oilsands giant’s president is calling on ...

The Pembina Institute and Water Matters are challenging the Energy Resources Conservation Board's approval in April of Syncrude's plans to deal with its tailings as unlawful, based on recently ...

Throughout the trial, the Crown argued that Syncrude did not deploy its cannons, effigies and other deterrents - meant to scare migratory birds off of its 12-square-kilometre tailings pond ...