This study examined the toxicity of aged oil sands tailings waste, and it's affect on eight species of freshwater aquatic organisms: Pimephales promelas (fathead minnow), Oryzias latipes (Japanese medaka), Hyalella azteca, Daphnia magna, Vibrio fischeri, Lampsilis cardium, Ceriodaphnia dubia, and Hexagenia spp. Water samples were collected in 2011 from a testing pond within the Alberta Oil Sands, and bioassays were completed in a laboratory at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters located in Burlington, Ontario.
All data are a part subject of a publication containing method details, full QA/QC, interpretation and conclusions: Bauer, A. E., Hewitt, L. M., Parrott, J. L., Bartlett, A. J., Gillis, P. L., Deeth, L. E., Rudy, M. D., Vanderveen, R., Brown, L., Campbell, S. D., Rodrigues, M. R., Farwell, A. J., Dixon, D. G., & Frank, R. A. (2019). The toxicity of organic fractions from aged oil sands process-affected water to aquatic species. The Science of the total environment, 669, 702–710. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.107