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RELEASE: More birds dead in toxic tailings: before plant even opens!
Keepers of the Athabasca is distressed to hear that yet another large group of birds is dead due to toxic tailings in the bitumen mining region of Northern Alberta.
Report: Annual bird mortality in the bitumen tailings ponds in northeastern Alberta, Canada
A new report has been published in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology by Kevin P. Timoney and Robert A. Ronconi, showing annual bird mortality in the bitumen tailings ponds of northeastern Alberta greatly exceeds industry estimates.