#tailings pond

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Yesterday, the federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced that his government is developing regulations that would allow for “treated” tailings wastewater to be drained into the Athabasca River as early as 2025, when the current ponds will run out of capacity.

Alberta's toxic tailings ponds — which cover an area over twice the size of the city of Vancouver and are growing daily — contain dangerous levels of mercury, arsenic, and naphthenic acids. Even after treatment, tailings remain high in salinity and naphthenic acids.

While the Minister also stated that this was not the only option being explored, it is the only option that is fast-tracking significant changes to the federal Fisheries Act. Releasing tailings effluent will not only have a detrimental effect on life within the Arctic Ocean Drainage Basin but will also significantly impact what little environmental protections are left for life-giving water across the settler state of Canada.

Our position remains unchanged, and we vehemently oppose the release of “treated” tailings. This is nothing more than another handout to oil companies that will allow them to continue to avoid their responsibility of reclamation and the high cost of cleaning up their own mess. Releasing tailings into the watershed is not a safe or just option for solving Alberta’s ever-growing tailings crisis.

This is a decision that accepts northern Indigenous communities and lands will remain a sacrifice zone for the profit of settler governments, southern populations, and some of the world’s richest mining corporations. Indigenous peoples have already been saddled with the burden of the negative impacts of oil sands extraction on their traditional homelands. This decision will impact Indigenous communities across this country already facing accessible clean water issues. Keepers of the Water demand Free, Prior, and Informed Consent before Canada enacts Fisheries Act regulation changes.

There are many harmful impacts from the oil sands production and leaking toxic tailings ponds, such as low water levels and loss or contamination of critical species, which have effectively forced Indigenous people off their own land. These impacts are exacerbated by increasing impacts from climate change and other expanding industrial activity that changes landscapes forever.

“There is no proven way to turn treated tailings into safe drinking water, but the government process is pushing for tailings release and nothing else,” said Jesse Cardinal, executive director of Keepers of the Water. “It is no coincidence that the oil industry, which is banking record profits, continues to push for ineffective half measures that hurt the communities.”

If Canada is serious about implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples then they need our Free, Prior and Informed Consent before releasing tailings into the water.

You can Take Action Today!

Send a letter to the Minister for Environment Climate Change Canada, Steven Guilbeault, and the Deputy Minister for Environmental Protection, John Moffet, that says NO to the release of “treated” tar sands tailings effluent into the Athabasca River. Link: https://www.keepersofthewater.ca/call-to-action

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For more information contact:

Jesse Cardinal - cell: 780-520-7108, email: [email protected]

Daniel T’seleie - cell: 867-444-0509, email: [email protected]

#submission #water protectors #water is life #pollution #tailings pond #UNDRIP

[yegactivist]

Polluter Pay Garbage Day by Paula Kirman

#edmonton #yeg #yegdt #pollution #environment #oilsands #tarsands #tailings pond #photojournalism #alberta #flickr

[g63heavenonearth]

Allegheny Cemetery 3-17-14-19

#cemetery #graveyard #deer #animals #allegheny cemetery #white tailed deer #pond #heavenonearth #pittsburgh

[rusticcottage]

#cottagecore #country #nature #cottage #rural #farm #simple life #country side #cottage aesthetic #countryside #pond #fairy #fairycore #fairy tail #dreamy #ethereal

[tmntphantom]

phantom turtle tots...

forgot most of donnie's outer scutes. oops

#donnie does NOT like the nail clippers #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #my art #my tmnt iteration #tmnt donatello #leonardo tmnt #donatello tmnt #leo tmnt #donnie tmnt #turtle tots #theyre autistic btw. #because i said so. #all of them. #including yoshi but shh don't tell him #tmnt: phantom #leo had a longer tail as a baby #japanese pond turtles are like that

[spiribia]

#talks #see the thing that extra confused me about it as a kid is that shaking your butt is something chickens and ducks do. #in conjunction with the chicken duck gestures of the dance when you say shake my butt i could only think of like a duck #wagging out its tail after it gets out of a pond. so like what does this have to do with not being either of them.

[alteredstatesstuff]

what he up to

#peaceful #outdoors #nature #serene #beauty #landscape #fantasy #photography #cat #pond #cat tail #water #field

[dont-eat-lint-rollers]

this is what happens when you start a sewing project and then drop it for 2-3 years

ugly

(photos and room provided by my sister @tielesiti-eftu)

#the pond #champ's lilypad #tails doll #sonic the hedgehog #sth #he looks worse in person #hes just. hes so ugly. i love him #most of the sewing was done around when i first started it. i swear i got better at this over time #proud of finally finishing him and he still came out pretty well but liek . #ugly. ugly baby

[jazzyjesse]

i'm sure i could make a more coherent post later but do u ever think abt sonic, tails, and eggman and how the three of them are stuck in an endless funhouse mirror maze? do u ever think about how these are two of the most important people in sonics life? how (depending on canon) the only adult in a young hoglets life is also the very man set to destroy it? about how sonic grew up around robotnik? about how he surely must have picked up traits? about how those traits passed down from sonic to his brother? about how sometimes when the thoughts won't stop sonic can't bear to look at all the machines and death rays in tails's workshop because they're just a little too familiar? do you ever think about how sonic is sandwiched between two twisted portraits of himself? about how he looks at tails and sees eggman's drive and about how he looks at eggman and sees tails's ingenuity? about how two of the most important and formative people for sonic to have ever met are lonely geniuses? do you ever think about how tails takes after sonic who takes after eggman?

is it any wonder that miles prower, in a world without sonic, is even more similar to eggman? what with his practicality, pessimism, and lack of loyalty?

is it any wonder that doctor ivo robotnik is the only one to have made the closest thing to a perfect copy of sonic as possible? a copy so perfect it deems sonic, the original, to be a loathsome copy?

know thy enemy. keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

strange, isn't it?

#kitty talks #sonic the hedgehog #sth #im sooooooooooo normal abt them #in idw impostor syndrome upon seeing tails's tails shaped house starline comments on how he takes after the doctor in strange ways #theres smth abt the intimacy of knowing your mortal enemy so thoroughly that you can pick out the traits you've exchanged #theres something here about sonic being doomed to be narcissus forever looking into the pond #so many of his friends are so so so alike to him #i notice many many things that are alike #i feel like i shld tag the sonic ova for how much weight its pulling in this post lmao

[memoryaqua]

The unnamed mermaid from "Little Bear," a largely forgettable cartoon that ran on Nick Jr. from 1995-2001.

Her wiki page has a gallery of screenshots, though the quality isn't too sharp.

What I never noticed was how stoned the mermaid looked.

I now wonder, is the mermaid related to Beauty?

#mermaid #little bear #cartoon #nick jr #nickelodeon #1990s #lake #pond #green hair #blue tail #stoned #goodtimes beauty and the beast #beauty #phelous #seaweed

[pyrocatproductions]

A Japanese Bob Tail Cat taking a fancy to some koi fish!  The first of three Japanese themed floating island I have planned. (This is only one I've completed so far, and I hope to get to the other two this month) Trying to paint new things and experiment with these island pieces. Maybe one day I can paint environments without so much struggle. 

Posted using PostyBirb

#artists on tumblr #art #illustration #floating island #cat #pond #koi fish #carp #cherry tree #stone lantern #japanese bob tail cat #digital art #digital painting #animal art

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Copper Mountain Mine has tailings dams holding back 309 million metric tonnes of tailings and they're likely to fail in extreme weather or seismic events. Dam failure would dump the sludge into sensitive ecosystems, waterways, and Princeton, B.C. Very little is being done to make this less likely and its predicted to fail should the mine reach the tailings pond maximum permitted capacity. Which is expected to happen in 2027.

#submission #tailings pond #mining waste #copper mountain #environmental disaster #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian

[elizjjwold]

by Elizabeth Johnson-Wold

#original photographers #photographers on tumblr #winter #cat tails #snow #pond #ice #January

[princess--bongwater]

2 of them

#my art #cookie run #crob #dino sour cookie #pond dino cookie #they r ... so small #dino tail propaganda also

[arborix]

every time I took the dog I was dogsitting for a walk I saw so many bumblebees but this one was just chillin on a queen anne's lace

#my pics #ramblings #I think there's an osprey nesting around there too cause I kept hearing one #and some red tailed hawks? #and a pond with frogs!! #and ducks!! #I should take walks more often #I went on like three a day with that pup #bumblebee #bugs #insects

[redqueensemporium]

My version of the amazing @lady-darkstreak piece.

This was a long time in the making of me hating what i made and re doing so much til i chose this.

#art #artist #artwork #digital illustration #digital painting #illustration #illustrator #digital #digital art #cute #halloween #horror #procreate #skeleton #coffin #koi fish #koi pond #moss #weeds #cat tails #water #thumbnails #colour sketch #procreate illustration #fish #koi #lily pads #re-creation #remake #redrawn