![]() ![]() ![]() But a winter storm had delayed deployment of the system, a Syncrude spokesman said. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands introduces Katie graduating from college and making the tough decision to work far away from her comfortable but impoverished home town. Migrating waterfowl are supposed to be kept from the poisonous waste-water ponds at the mines, where massive shovels pull tons of oil-laden sand from the ground, by sound-cannons that simulate gunfire. “I’m deeply disappointed and I know the Syncrude leadership team shares that disappointment.” “Without question, I think it was not only an unfortunate event but a really tragic one,” Imperial CEO Bruce March told reporters following the company’s annual meeting. Imperial has a 25 percent stake in oil sand producer Syncrude Canada Ltd, owner of the tailings pond in northern Alberta, where the ducks died earlier this week because a warning system meant to keep them off wasn’t operating. The death of about 500 ducks that landed in a pond of oily, toxic sludge operated by Canada's biggest oil sands producer was tragic, the chief executive of Imperial Oil Ltd said on Thursday. A truck drives down a street at Syncrude's oil tar sands operation near Fort McMurray, Alberta in this file photo. ![]()
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