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Suncor's oil sands tailings pond plan approved under tougher rules

DateTuesday, June 22, 2010 at 11:45AM

Oil sands operator second miner to receive similar approval

Calgary Herald

June 17, 2010

CALGARY - Suncor Energy has become the second oilsands miner to have regulator approval of its tailings pond management plan — leaving four of six companies still not compliant under tougher new rules imposed last year.

The Energy Resources Conservation Board announced Thursday it had conditionally approved Suncor’s proposal, which includes spending $1 billion to implement a new technology called tailings reduction operations or TRO...

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