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Posted Wed Sep 1 2010: from
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Oilsands water toxins natural, monitor says http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1283344837
Pollutants in Alberta's Athabasca River system are natural, the joint oilsands industry-government group responsible for monitoring the region's water maintains.
"We do find elevated levels of things in [our] study area," said Fred Kuzmic on behalf of the Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP), a joint industry-government group. "Those are generally associated with naturally occurring compounds."
Kuzmic, who heads a research and reclamation team for Shell Albian Sands, was responding to a study
[that] linked high levels of toxins to oilsands mining.
Concentrations of pollutants like mercury and cadmium were higher downstream from oilsands mining than upstream, the researchers found. They did not find the same difference between water upstream and downstream of undeveloped oilsands deposits.
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