Hundreds of ducks made a fatal landing recently in a tailings pond filled with a witch's brew of oil and toxic sludge at a northern Alberta tar sands mine. Regulators are investigating why Syncrude Canada -- the country's largest tar sands producer -- failed to deploy a system designed to scare off waterfowl.
Syncrude Canada kills baby ducks
Hundreds of Ducks Die at Canadian Oil Sands Mine
(via www.planetark.com)
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