RE:RE:Yikes!!!....All this NOW makes sense....This is absolutely insane, that this would even be a news item, but is intended to be another idiotic headline intending to bash the oil sands and feed the ignorant masses.
The facts are 5900 litres of water from a sediment pond ran into the river. The sediment pond on this site was not a tailings pond, but a pond designed to collect surface road and site runoff, snow melt, rain, etc. before it goes into the river. So as per reporting requirements, SU did right. 5900 litres of water flowed into the river, which happened to be at twice the allowed limit of 50mg per litre (0.00005 kg/l) which was (0.0001 kg/l). You could drink it. Do the math. The amount of suspended silt would have been 0.59 kg. OMG! I have washed far more clay from my boots in the river after walking along the shoreline.
How many tons of additional CO2 have been wasted by everyone to power all their devices just reading about this?
The Athabasca river itself flows 1231 kilometers from the glacial headwaters in the Rocky Mountains, taking away fine silt, and continues to grind rock, gravel, ore, metals, and sand into the finest dust ever, at each and every millimeter along the way. How many billions of tons of rock have been reduced to a fine silt over the last 285 million years? What of the glacial action over the last few ice ages carving the surface of the earth into unrecognizable lands and resulting debris?
My god. Someone help these poor unwashed green idiots put things into perspective please before they glue their hands onto a river boulder during dry season.
EIA next up...