Canada: Syncrude faces multimillion-dollar tailings costs

Reuters: Syncrude Canada Ltd, the country's largest oil sands producer, will spend hundreds of millions of dollars building two plants to reduce toxic waste under recently tightened regulations, it said on Friday. The plants, which will employ new technology to process tailings from oil sands production, are conditions of approvals by the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board, the first under a directive issued in February 2009. Syncrude and the ERCB said the new rules are tough, ......

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