Monday, October 1, 2012
Water
Institute
researchers
were
among
the
authors
of
two
recent
publications
which
concluded
that
oil
sands
development
in
Alberta
is
not
polluting
the
water
and
air
in
the
Peace-Athabasca
Delta
area
at
levels
previously
thought.
The
researchers
found
that
emissions
from
the
oil
sands
have
not
increased
the
levels
of
metal
and
organic
contaminants
travelling
to
the
delta
via
air
emissions.
Similarly,
the
mining
activity
in
the
oil
sands
area
was
not
found
to
have
measurably
increased
organic
contaminant
levels
in
the
shallow
delta
lakes
fed
by
the
Athabasca
River.
The
research
was
published
in
the
journals Science
of
the
Total
Environment and PLOS
ONE. The
Globe
and
Mail
Newspaper
also
reported
on
these
findings
on October
8.
The
Edmonton
Sun
had
a
related
article
on October
10.