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Alberta's oilsands cleanup piggy bank 'unfit for purpose,' researchers say
(ca.finance.yahoo.com)
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To To put this in perspective, Giant Mine and Faro mine, which are much, much smaller mines, have cleanup bills around 4-5 billion.
Albertans have gone all in on difficult to extract oil that is sold at discount… On a market that’s controlled by a cartel [OPEC].
E: Faro mine is 25 km2 in size. the current mineable footprint for the oil sands 1,030 km2 in size.
Just to add another one, the Sydney Tar Ponds covered 102 hectares (1.02 km^2) and cost $400M (2013) to clean up.
One of the Tailings ponds I'm familiar with is 9 km x 6 km in size...54km2