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06 Oct '12, 6pm

Oil Industry Looks to Create "Lake District" from Open-Pit Mines and Toxic Tar Sands Waste

Oil Industry Looks to Create "Lake District" from Open-Pit Mines and Toxic Tar Sands Waste

This week, the Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA), an industry-funded consultancy group in Alberta, released the End Pit Lakes Guidance Document to the Government of Alberta for review. The 434-page document outlines a 100-year plan to integrate open-pit mines and tar sands tailings into Northern Alberta's local ecosystem, introducing what they call a 'reclaimed lake district' as a long-term alternative to the temporary tailings ponds that currently hold the billions of gallons of water, sand, clay, hydrocarbons, naphthenic acids , salt and other byproducts of the bitumen extraction and upgrading process. The 30 proposed end-pit lakes (EPLs) will take up more than 100 square kilometers, spread out over an area of 2,500 square kilometers . Toronto, for comparison, covers an area of 630 square kilometers. Industry envisions the artificial lake district as...

Full article: http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/10/04/oil-industry-looks-c...

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