
A civil engineering research team has developed a new way to clean oil sands process affected water and reclaim tailings ponds in Alberta’s oil sands industry. Using sunlight as a renewable energy source instead of UV lamps, and adding chlorine to the tailings, oil sands process affected water is decontaminated and detoxified — immediately.
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