Oil industry lowballs bird deaths: study

[Newsjock]

Source: Canadian Press

A new study says birds are likely dying in Alberta oilsands tailings ponds at a rate that is at least 30 times higher than that suggested by the oil industry.

The results add weight to arguments that depending on the industry to monitor its own environmental impacts isn't working, said Kevin Timoney, an ecologist who co-authored a paper on the subject with Dalhousie University biologist Robert A. Ronconi.

The paper was published Tuesday in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology.

... "Industry-reported data on bird deaths are problematic as they are not systematic, repeatable and statistically robust," the paper says. "Government should assume responsibility for development of systematic monitoring and research on tailings pond bird landing, oiling and mortality rates."

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/09/07/oilsands-tailing-ponds-bird-deaths.html

[madrchsod]

1. bigger environmental disaster than the gulf....

and zero news coverage in the usa

[Nihil]

4. Pah! It's not the Gulf of Mexico so who cares?

Slurp, slurp, slurp that oil!

[dipsydoodle]

2. K & R

:(

[primavera]

3. How cool it must be to have institutions...

... willing to stand up and report facts instead of just corporate propaganda! Lucky Canadians!