During the ministry’s inspection, officials found that a settling pond, used to remove suspended solids and pollutants from wastewater from mining activity, had collapsed due to high rainfall.

Alberta has earmarked $50-million to boost technologies that can help reduce and manage the massive oil sands tailings ponds ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service has blocked a Canadian mining company from filling a new holding pond with arsenic-tainted water after holes and other potential flaws were ...

After the gold sinks, the water, full of non-gold sediment, will be sent to a settling pond. After the sediment settles out, it can be put back into the hole from which it came, he said.

A major milestone in June 2025 was the approval of the Kenbridge Road Realignment Permit (Phase 3) —a result of close collaboration with Indigenous communities and with the Minister of Natural ...

The region’s rapid growth — driven by poultry farms, marijuana farming, and a tourism boom in Hochatown — is putting pressure on local water supplies.

Overall, I thought it was really pleasant considering it's size. It felt clean and not too dissimilar from my trip to Wakefield - aside from it being much bigger. There was no way I was going to ...

The First Nations have been adamant that the cause (s) of their members’ health issues are oil sands operations and other industry activity. They also claim that government/private companies actively ...

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South Johnstone Mill’s settling ponds leave town smelling like “sewerage” Residents of a small Cassowary Coast town endured a week they won’t be forgetting for a long time and for good reason.