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Alberta must get back to monitoring tailings ponds, environment say water keepers
People who fight to protect the environment and their communities say the province of Alberta is making a mistake by suspending environmental monitoring because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Grassroots Groups Demand Information on Flooding Impacts on Toxic Tailings Lakes
There is concern around the current impact of the Athabasca River flood.
PRESENTATIONS: Athabasca Basin: Tailings and impacts on aquifers
Keepers of the Athabasca, in partnership with the Society of High Prairie Regional Environmental Action Committee (REAC), is connecting hydrogeologists, some working in the area for over a decade, with Traditional Knowledge holders, First Nations technical experts, and those closest to the land in order to develop tools toward watershed literacy, citizen science, and water monitoring programs.
EVENT: Athabasca Basin: Tailings and Impacts on Aquifers project
Keepers of the Athabasca are working with hydrogeologists to develop a data visualization tool for community based water monitoring that will show where tailings are seeping into the groundwater and coming back up in the Athabasca River.
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
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).
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.