OPEN LETTER: Concerns regarding the Mine Financial Security Program and implementation of the Tailings Management Framework for the Athabasca Oil Sands
Keepers of the Athabasca (Keepers) have serious liability concerns, including health, financial and environmental, with Alberta's Mine Financial Security Program (MFSP) and the implementation of the Tailings Management Framework (TMF). In this letter we briefly detail these concerns and strongly recommend specific actions on the part of the Government of Alberta (GoA) and Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP) to rectify the untenable situation we find ourselves in. These are not new issues, but ones that Keepers has engaged in with the GoA and the oil sands industry for several years. It is long past time for these issues to be rectified, as Alberta's Auditor General (AG) and many others have stated.