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Canadian environmental policy

The Lie of a Cleaner Oilsands

June 27, 2023 by Andrew Nikiforuk

The oilsands have accumulated vast volumes of toxic mining fluids (1.4 billion litres or more than 540,000 Olympic sized pools) in the world’s third largest watershed under the watch of a captive regulator and an industry-dominated oilsands monitoring program.

Categories Energy, Energy featured, Environment Tags Canadian environmental policy, environmental effects of oil sands, oil sands Leave a comment

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