In May 2022 a tailings pond at Imperial’s Kearl Lake facility in northern Alberta started leaking toxic waste into groundwater and outside its lease boundaries. But no one reported the leak to water users living downstream of the massive oilsands project for nine months. Key quote:“All trust with the Alberta government has been broken and has been broken for a long time. Big picture:While the Canadian government claims progress toward a better-regulated, less-polluting industry, previous promises by the Alberta government and industry to control growing mining waste have been broken. Industry ignored 2009 rules to reduce the volume of tailing waste and regulators ultimately abandoned the rules, Nikiforuk reports.

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2023 01:54 UTC