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Tailings are a mixture of clay, sand, water and fine silts formed during the oil sands extraction process. They are contained in ponds or settling basins, which are effective ways of managing them while they settle. Any proposal to construct a new tailings pond is thoroughly examined by technical experts from a host of regulatory bodies. Every effort is made to ensure that the design and proposed location of a pond is suitable from an environmental, resource conservation and economic point of view. All tailings ponds are constructed with groundwater monitoring and seepage capture facilities, and are closely monitored to ensure. | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The Links Between the Neighborhood Food Environment and Childhood Nutrition Leslie Mikkelsen . Sana Chehimi . PREVENTION INSTITUTE OAKLAND CALIF. AUTHORS Leslie Mikkelsen . Sana Chehimi . ABOUT PREVENTION INSTITUTE Prevention Institute is a national nonprofit dedicated to improving community health and well-being by building momentum for effective primary prevention through a strong commitment to community participation and promotion of equitable health outcomes among all social and economic groups. The Institute is a nationally recognized expert in improving nutrition and physical activity access through an environmental and policy approach and has created several tools in this arena including the Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community Tool ENACT . ENACT offers concrete strategies and local level policies to improve nutrition and physical activity in a number of key settings. Prevention Institute staff also conceptualized and edited Prevention is Primary Strategies for Community Well-Being a text for students and practitioners copublished by Jossey Bass and the American Public Health Association in March 2007. In addition to nutrition and physical activity the Institute focuses on injury and violence prevention traffic safety health disparities community health and youth development. . 4 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Route 1 and College Road East . Box 2316 Princeton NJ 08543-2316 This publication is available for downloading from the Foundation s Web site at pdf foodenvironment. The findings and views contained in this report do not necessarily reflect those of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 2007 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Cover photo Tyrone Turner The Links Between the Neighborhood Food Environment and Childhood Nutrition Introduction More families than ever before are suffering 1 the consequences of unhealthy eating. There has been a dramatic and alarming increase