Saurav Vishnu’s award-winning documentary short “Tailing Pond” is being expanded into a six-part documentary series with the involvement of “Sex and the City” actor Cynthia Nixon. Nixon narrated the ...

Victoria Collins receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and oilsands operators. She conducts research in collaboration with oilsands operators. As of 2017, more ...

A study conducted for the Alberta government’s research organization has created a framework for developing technologies related to tailing ponds in oil sands mining operations. A study conducted for ...

Feb 8 (Reuters) - Canada's Imperial Oil (IMO.TO), opens new tab on Wednesday said it is working with the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) to fix industrial wastewater seepage from tailings ponds at its ...

Imperial Oil (NYSE:IMO) said Wednesday it is working with the Alberta Energy Regulator to fix wastewater seepage from tailings ponds at its Kearl oil sands project, after reporting a second leak in ...

LIMA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Peru is starting to build a system of tunnels this week to drain a soggy hillside that engineers fear could collapse and pour thousands of tonnes of toxic mine tailings into ...

Alberta’s energy regulator has a plate-full of problems, from a leaking tailings pond to another full of dead animals. Laurie Pushor, the president and CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator, was called ...

Aurizon Mines Ltd. (ARZ.TO) reported that during a routine evening inspection of the tailing ponds on May 1, 2013 at the Casa Berardi Mine in Quebec, it was discovered that there was a breach of an ...

Danielle Droitsch is director of the Canada Project for the NRDC. She contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. On August 4, 2014, the catastrophic failure of a ...