Apparently you need to be a multimillion dollar oil and gas corporation in order to get funding from the AB UCP govt to figure out what to do with the waste you're generating.
True Oak
“The environment minister says tailings ponds were never meant to be a permanent solution, and new tech will help clean water and reclaim land.”
The Government of Alberta is giving several oilsands companies a total of $46 million to implement new technology to clean up tailings ponds.
