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Canada’s Oil-Sands Miners Want to Flush Oceans of Wastewater Downstream (archive.ph)
submitted 2 years ago by lightrush to c/canada
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Waste sitting in pits could fill almost 883,000 Olympic-size swimming pools, and oil companies say they need to find a way to reduce it

The companies, including an affiliate of Exxon Mobil, are lobbying the Canadian government to set rules that would allow them to treat the waste and release it into the Athabasca River by 2025, so they have enough time to meet their commitments to eventually close the mines.

Of course they are.

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[–] CanadianCorhen 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

privatize profits socialize losses.

Same old playgame. In the end, if you cant turn a profit without destroying the lands, you cant turn a profit.

They definitly need to process the water to the point that its "clean", before discharging it somehow, but the standard for clean needs to be... well, clean from impurities, heavy metals, ect.

[–] giantshortfacedbear 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Flush the water out is really the only option, the longer it sits in tailings ponds the more likely it is to have an uncontrolled spill. We absolutely need someone we can trust to define 'clean' though -- and that's not the government nor the mining companies; and we need someone we can trust to monitor it and confirm it is 'clean'.

[–] corsicanguppy 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Flush[ing] the water out is really the only option[:] the longer it sits in tailings ponds the more likely it is to have an uncontrolled spill.

I bet there's a third option, at least, that involves properly shoring up the tailings pond until they can process the toxic mess into something else.

[–] giantshortfacedbear 2 points 2 years ago

I think we are saying the same thing. The best option is the recycling the toxic mess into valuable commodities and clean water.