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Alberta regulator approves oil sands lakes in place of reforesting

Frik Els | May 20, 2013 | 5:16 pm Energy Canada 

[caption id="attachment_715568" align="aligncenter" width="560"] Satellite image comparing Athabasca Region in 1984 and 2011[/caption] Alberta has approved a controversial and commercially untested method for cleaning up tailings in the Canadian province's vast oil sands fields. The province's oil and gas regulator...

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