Dramatic pictures and video of ducks struggling in a toxic waste pond were released Tuesday at Syncrude's trial on environmental charges in the deaths of 1,606 ducks in April 2008.

It hopes to begin accelerating its use of TRO in 2010, the same year in which it will complete its first reclamation of a tailings pond. Continue Reading Equinor to acquire FPSO for Campos basin ...

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has started an investigation into the death of 32 waterfowl at a Suncor Energy Inc tailings pond on its Base Mine Site, 29 km (18 miles) north of Fort McMurray.

Most of some 500 migrating ducks died after landing on a pond owned by oil sands company Syncrude Canada Ltd, ... a tar-like bitumen that is extracted using mining techniques.

The pond site reclaimed measures just over a square mile. As we drove around, we saw a fox, several white-tailed deer, and spooked a couple of coveys of sharp-tailed grouse.

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) said on Sunday it was monitoring the situation after 27 waterfowl were found dead at one of Suncor Energy Inc's oilsands tailings ponds.

The water pipe believed to have introduced black particles of bitumen into the freshwater supply at two public housing estates in Hong Kong last month will be replaced by early July, the ...

Alberta has earmarked $50-million to boost technologies that can help reduce and manage the massive oil sands tailings ponds ...

Images of dead and dying ducks stuck in the bitumen atop Syncrude's tailings pond made headlines after they were submitted as evidence at the oilsands company's trial in St. Albert, Alta., on March 2.

By 2022, crude bitumen production from the oil sands was 3.3 million barrels daily, netting C$16.9 billion ($13 billion at the time) in royalties for Alberta, according to government figures.