Leaks from tailing pond at Imperial Oil site raise concerns about industry oversight, relationship between industry and the province’s regulatory bodies
Recent leaks of toxic tailings from northern Alberta oilsands mines have revealed serious flaws in how Canada and Alberta look after the environment, observers say.
Imperial discovered “brown sludge” near one of its Kearl tailings ponds in May and it became clear over the summer the problem was significant. And then the province hands it off to a regulator that many consider too close to the industry it’s supposed to oversee. A survey conducted in 2021 for Alberta Environment found more than 85 per cent of Albertans had little confidence in the regulator’s ability to govern industry, in that case coal. The survey also reported Albertans found the agency reluctant to release information and was not very transparent.
He said the province and the regulator have already refused to tell him the scope and timeline for the investigation of the leak. Savage wouldn’t commit to making the results of the investigation public, Schmidt said, nor would she promise to release results from an internal investigation into whether the regulator followed notification rules.
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