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extraction technology that could do away with the tailings ponds whose carcinogenic toxins kill migrating birds that land in them and leach into the athabasca river, causing genetic deformity in its fish and rare bile-duct cancer in the native people of Fort Chipweyan downstream from the mines and bitumen extraction plants. If this can be implemented, it would great for the living things in that part of the world and the billions of birds that pass through it.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Edmonton+Company+Innovates+Sand+Extraction/4529496/story.html
http://www.gizmag.com/ionic-liquids-used-to-process-tar-sands/18214/