Reclaiming Tailings Pond Areas Monitoring Environmental Impacts of Tar Sands Operations

Seeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises. In the United States, tar sands resources are primarily concentrated in eastern Utah, mostly on public lands. The in-place tar sands oil resources in Utah are ... Oct 1, 2013 ... This paper examines the widespread criticism of the project from Indigenous and environmental groups, as well as responses to these objections by public/ ... Apr 3, 2012 ... To refer to them as the Athabasca “tar sands” has become a signal of opposition to their uninhibited exploitation. Calling them the “oil sands,” ... Feb 5, 2014 ... It was a stop on her “Canada's Tar Sands Exposed: Exploring the Human and Environmental Costs” campaign tour with fellow activist and renowned ... Seamlessly combining travelogue, sophisticated political analysis, and ecological theory, speaking both to local residents and to leading scholars, the authors ... Oil shale and tar sands development destroys species habitat, wastes enormous volumes of water, pollutes air and water, and degrades and defiles vast swaths of ... The name tar sands was applied to bituminous sands in the late 19th and early 20th century. People who saw the bituminous sands during this period were ... Jul 15, 2014 ... Canada's boreal forest is one of Earth's major ecological treasures. Yet the region's forests are under threat from logging, hydrodams and mining. ABS Group was selected to perform a Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) to assist the client in better understanding the operational risks of tar sand reservoir ...