Oilsands giant Syncrude was found guilty Friday on both environmental charges in the April 2008 deaths of 1,600 ducks in a northern Alberta tailings pond.
Syncrude was charged under the Alberta Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act and the federal Migratory Birds Convention Act with failing to protect migratory birds from a toxic tailings pond.
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A memorial service will take place Friday in Edmonton for Ernie Kuyt, a Canadian biologist who helped save the whooping crane from extinction. Kuyt died on May 21. He was 81.
A member of the Canadian Wildlife Service, Kuyt spent a lifetime working on wildlife conservation in Canada, including 25 years on Canadian and U.S. [...]

Tar balls thought to be the product of a relentless oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico have washed ashore on Dauphin Island, south of Mobile, Ala.
The entire island is a bird sanctuary. Several varieties of birds, including those heading to Canada on their annual spring migration, make the island their first landfall after arriving [...]

The peacock on the loose in north Edmonton is still evading capture, but animal control officers say it's the freelance fowl hunters they're most worried about.
Officers showed up in the Beaumaris neighbourhood around 154th Avenue and 101st Street again Wednesday afternoon, where the bird was huddled on a windowsill in sub-zero temperatures.
Before the animal control [...]

Lawyers for oilsands giant Syncrude are scheduled to appear in court in Alberta on Monday to defend the company against charges laid in the deaths of 1,600 ducks in a northern Alberta tailings pond in April 2008.
The company has pleaded not guilty to charges under provincial and federal laws. Two months have been set aside [...]