New report debunks Alberta Energy Regulator's tailings spills data
Regulator's data lacks crucial evidence of environmental harm, with spill volumes and footprints vastly understated, ecologist Kevin Timoney finds.
A new academic study examining 514 bitumen tailings spills in Alberta over a decade has found that the provincial regulator’s records “lack the ecological, biological, and chemical data required to assess and manage the environmental impacts of tailings spills.”
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