Facility: Tailings Pond and Fort Mcmurray

facility: According to United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney and federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford they're the reason we can't have a price on carbon, according to The Toronto Star. The Syncrude oil sands extraction facility is reflected in a tailings pond near the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta on June 1, 2014. According to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, they're the reason we bought a pipeline, and need to twin it and fill it with bitumen in a hurry. Jason Franson / THE CANADIAN PRESS Well, this past week those arguments exploded in a million oily droplets though no one really noticed. The bombshell figure of more than a quarter trillion dollars revealed in dramatic fashion last week is the Alberta Energy Regulator's AER behind-closed-doors estimate of the energy industry's environmental liabilities. That's because the headlines read, Cleaning up Alberta's oilpatch could cost 260 billion instead of cleaning up Alberta's oilpatch could spark a reclamation boom that would create decades of full employment in the province and beyond. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.