Chronic Toxicity of Surface Water from a Canadian Oil Sands End Pit Lake to the Freshwater Invertebrates Chironomus dilutus and Ceriodaphnia dubia

KB White, K Liber - Archives of environmental contamination and …, 2020 - Springer
Permanent reclamation of tailings generated by surface mining in the Canadian oil sands
may be achieved through the creation of end pit lakes (EPLs) in which tailings are stored in …

Effects of exposure to oil sands process-affected water from experimental reclamation ponds on Chironomus dilutus

J Anderson, SB Wiseman, A Moustafa, MG El-Din… - Water Research, 2012 - Elsevier
Effective detoxification of oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) is one issue associated
with bitumen extraction in the Alberta oil sands. It has been suggested that reclamation …

Toxicity of waters from the St. Lawrence River at Massena Area-of-Concern to the plankton species Selenastrum capricornutum and Ceriodaphnia dubia

BP Baldigo, BT Duffy, CJ Nally, AM David - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2012 - Elsevier
In 1972, the US and Canada committed to restore the chemical, physical, and biological
integrity of the Great Lakes Ecosystem under the first Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement …

Endocrine disruption and oxidative stress in larvae of Chironomus dilutus following short-term exposure to fresh or aged oil sands process-affected water

SB Wiseman, JC Anderson, K Liber, JP Giesy - Aquatic toxicology, 2013 - Elsevier
Understanding the toxicity of oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) is a significant issue
associated with the production of oil from the Alberta oil sands. OSPW is acutely and …

[PDF][PDF] Characterizing annual changes in the chemistry and toxicity of surface water from Base Mine Lake, an Alberta oil sands end pit lake

KB White - 2017 - harvest.usask.ca
Base Mine Lake (BML) is an end pit lake (EPL) located within the Alberta oil sands
containing fluid fine tailings (FFT) capped with oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) and …

Toxicity of total dissolved solids associated with two mine effluents to chironomid larvae and early life stages of rainbow trout

PM Chapman, H Bailey… - … Toxicology and Chemistry …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Asessment of total dissolved solids (TDS) represents anintegrated measure of the
concentrations of common ions (eg, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride …

Using artificial streams to assess the effects of metal‐mining effluent on the life cycle of the freshwater midge (Chironomus tentans) in situ

KA Hruska, MG Dubé - Environmental Toxicology and …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
In 2002, we developed an in situ life‐cycle bioassay with Chironomus tentans in artificial
streams to evaluate the effects of a complex metal mine effluent under ambient …

Combined effect of freshwater salinization and harmful algae on the benthic invertebrate Chironomus pallidivittatus

S Cai, Y Zhang, M Pan, Z Zhang, B Lu, C Tian, C Wang… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Global climate change as well as human activities have been reported to increase the
frequency and severity of both salinization and harmful algal blooms (HABs) in many …

Effects of diluted effluent on aquatic macroinvertebrate communities at the McClean Lake uranium operation in northern Saskatchewan

B Cupe-Flores, M Mendes, I Phillips, B Panigrahi… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Diluted treated effluent from the McClean Lake uranium mill in northern Saskatchewan is
released into Vulture Lake, which flows into the east basin of McClean Lake; this input could …

Assessing potential toxicity of chloride-affected groundwater discharging to an urban stream using juvenile freshwater mussels (Lampsilis siliquoidea)

JW Roy, R McInnis, G Bickerton, PL Gillis - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
Groundwater contaminants, such as chloride from road salt, pose a threat to aquatic
ecosystems when and where they discharge to surface waters. Here we study the …