Impoundments in example sentence

But it too is being threatened by the massive amount of water being drawn from the Athabasca, which feeds these wetlands, and also the incredible toxic burden of the largest toxic unlined impoundments on the planet, which are leaching in to the food chain for all the species downstream.

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The tailings ponds are the largest toxic impoundments on the planet.

The tar sands consume more water than any other oil process, three to five barrels of water are taken, polluted and then returned into tailings ponds, the largest toxic impoundments on the planet.

That's creating the largest toxic impoundments in the history of the planet.

And the world certainly does not need the largest toxic impoundments to grow and multiply and further threaten the downstream communities.

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