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Alberta’s Tar Sands and the Dead Duck Trial
Opinion | New York Times | Green Inc. | John Lorinc | March 10, 2010
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Insisting that the failure of its bird-deterring air cannons doesn’t constitute a crime, Syncrude has pleaded not guilty.
Environmentalists, for their part, see the case as a test of the Alberta government’s resolve to enforce new regulations for tailings ponds, where the water used to separate and process oil-bearing tar typically ends up.
“The ducks are the tip of the iceberg,” said Simon Dyer, an oil sands analyst for the Pembina Institute, an environmental organization. “If you look at the mood of Alberta in public opinion surveys, the majority of Albertans are quite disgusted by the way Syncrude is behaving.”
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