RELEASE: Condolences - 10 years after international tailings duck disaster

On the anniversary of 1,600 ducks' death in Syncrude's tailings pond, we wish to express our sincere condolences for the thousands of other lives lost in tailing ponds, including at least 27 black bears, 67 deer, 31 red foxes and 21 coyotes (between 2000 and 2008 only), along with moose, muskrats, beavers, voles, martens, more ducks, geese, at least 31 blue herons (2015), other birds, and people, as well as the unknown and unreported deaths of other animals large and small. Keepers of the Athabasca continues to work hard to oppose new bitumen extraction, actively fundraising to provide tools for community based monitoring and advocating for an independent human health study to examine the confirmed human cancer clusters in northeastern Alberta.

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