D' OH ! Oil sands cleanup harder than they thought

Alberta's energy industry has found that cleaning up oilsands tailings is much harder than it thought.

The province's energy regulator says all oilsands companies affected by tailings reduction rules missed what were supposed to be legally binding targets — some by wide margins. All were given extra years to meet reductions that should have been done by now.

"It's tougher than they thought," Terry Abel of the Energy Resources Conservation Board said Tuesday. "It's tougher than we thought, too."

The dodo birds in Ottawa claim they know better than anyone that the oil sands are a clean source of energy and that their environmental programs are working.

Really? Well Joe "Shmoe" Oliver..... you're full of bullshit and the world knows it.

If it is so environmentally friendly why does the Conservative party not provide drinking water from the rivers to party members?

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/regulator-industry-oilsands-cleanup-harder-first-thought-175213033.html

Suncor mining tailings in the Alberta oil sands. Photo David Dodge, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society.

http://thetyee.ca/News/2010/11/10/MemoUrgedGreening/