Federal and Alberta Governments to Study Oilsands Tailings Leak Communication

An oil worker holds raw oilsands near Fort McMurray, Alta., on July 9, 2008. The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh

The Alberta and federal governments say they will work together to understand what happened around public notifications of toxic seepage at an oilsands tailings pond.

Alberta environment minister Sonya Savage and her federal counterpart Steven Guilbeault discussed on Tuesday night the seepage and leak from the Kearl oilsands mine.