Environment committee  That is a good question. Everything leaks, of course. The tailings ponds that you're speaking of, with the capture wells as well as the perimeter ditches, are specifically designed to return that leakage back into the process-affected recycle stream. There is one discontinued ta

Environment committee  I believe it's principal component analysis, which is a type of statistical treatment.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I see that my earlier guess was incorrect now that I understand the context. PCA in that context means Pleistocene channel aquifer, which is an aquifer that runs through the eastern side of the oil sands area and up through many of the proposed mining operations. The quality vari

Environment committee  Well, given that the report was released, I think, yesterday, I haven't had a chance to look at it at all. It's the first time I'm hearing about it, except that I did hear that it was released. So I'm not able to respond specifically to any of the suggestions in that report. I

Environment committee  Good morning. I'm going to talk about water quality as it relates to the environmental impact assessment process in the oil sands region in Alberta. My presentation is going to focus exclusively on surface mines. I'd like to first introduce a slide showing the bitumen outcrops