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At COP15, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, Canada focused on biodiversity protection, meaningful partnership with Indigenous Peoples and science-based policies. Yet when the rubber hits the road on each of these priorities with cases like the oilsands tailings ponds, Canada is headed the wrong way. It is time for the government to put a stop to the oil industry’s toxic takeover of lands.
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An aerial view of Syncrude's oilsands upgrading facility and Mildred Lake settling basin tailings pond north of Fort McMurray, Alta. File photo. Ryan Jackson / Edmonton Journal Currently, there is a volume of almost 400,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools of fluid tailings accumulated in the Athabasca oilsands. It covers approximately 220 square kilometres of area, which is roughly one-quarter the size of Calgary.
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