EDMONTON - A Greenpeace activist has marched up the steps of the Alberta legislature and provided Premier Ed Stelmach with pictures of ducks struggling in a northern Alberta oilsands tailings pond.
Earlier this week, Stelmach said he hadn't seen images of the 1,600 ducks that died after landing on a Syncrude Canada sludge pond.
But a day later he said he saw pictures around the time the ducks landed in April 2008, but hadn't seen recent photos released during Syncrude's trial on environmental charges.
Greenpeace spokesman Mike Hudema says it's time for Stelmach to stop hiding from the images of the sludge-covered ducks.
Hudema says Alberta's Tory government has lax environmental standards that allow the creation of lake-sized toxic ponds in the northern oilsands region.
One of Stelmach's aides took the photos from Hudema.
