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Environment Canada announces they are taking steps to monitor the effects of development of oil sands in the area. The plan is designed to gauge the cumulative effects on the environment from oil production from tar sands.
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Peace River -
A small community located near the oil sands in Alberta has been plagued with smelly emissions from the oil sands for about a year. With complaints of illness associated with the smell, residents want answers and a resolution.
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Fort Mcmurray -
The number of ducks which have died after they flew into two tailing ponds owned by Syncrude Monday has risen to 350. Syncrude had originally said around 200 ducks had landed in the tailings pond.
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Fort Mcmurray -
On October 22, a judge ordered Syncrude to pay $3 million in fines after the company had been found guilty of causing the deaths of hundreds of ducks in 2008.
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Canada's Environment Minister, Jim Prentice, unveiled his picks for the six person review panel he had announced he would set up. The panel is to review all the Alberta oil sands water monitoring information.
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The Government of Alberta has announced it is convening an independent panel that will review oil sands water monitoring data.
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Days after a press conference was convened in Alberta to showcase fish allegedly deformed by oil sands pollution, Canada's Environment Minister, Jim Prentice has announced he will conduct a review into Alberta's water watchdog, RAMP.
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Today fish collected from the lower Athabasca River, Athabasca Delta and Lake Athabasca were on display in Edmonton showing deformities, lesions, tumours or cysts, and indicators of infection or disease.
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Edmonton -
Just over a month ago, three Canadian First Nation communities had called on the government of Canada to enact emergency measures to protect Woodland Caribou populations found in Alberta.
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Edmonton -
A study conducted by University of Alberta biologists and ecologists released Monday concluded that 13 toxic pollutants found in Alberta's Athabasca River came from the oil sands.
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Oil sands Headlines
 Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. has exercised its option to sell its remaining 40 per cent interest in the MacKay River oil sands project to a unit of Chinese oil giant PetroChina for about $680 million.
European Union officials are expected to vote on draft legislation that would label Canadian fuel as more polluting than oil from other parts of the world.
Time-lapse footage reveals how mushroom corals inflate and deflate to free themselves from smothering sand.
The Sand Museum in Tottori Japan has commissioned an exhibition of London themed sand sculptures in honour of the Olympics
Brit-winning artist Emeli Sande is headlining a special concert celebrating the arrival of the Olympic torch in Cardiff.
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View of tailings ponds looking south over the Syncrude processing facilities and upgrader north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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