More Than 100 #Birds Die After Landing On #TarSands Waste Ponds In #Canada - Despite the use of cannons, noise machines, and scarecrows, tar sands tailings ponds are still killing birds in Canada. According to reports compiled by the #Alberta Energy Regulator, 122 migratory birds have died this week at three tar sands operations in Alberta. The birds landed on the operations’ tailings ponds, the large pits that store the water, sand, clay, leftover oil, and toxic contaminants that are produced in the tar sands mining process. The AER said in a media release that weather may have been a factor in the birds’ landing and ultimate deaths — a spokesperson for Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., the company that’s in charge of one of the deadly tailings ponds, told the CBC there was “extreme fog” the morning that the birds landed on the pond.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 20:19:40 +0000
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