Back in 2012, when scarcely a dozen oil sands firms accounting for almost 90 percent of all oil sands output formed Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), they changed the industry forever. This is not hyperbole. By moving from competition to collaboration to lighten their environmental footprint, COSIA slashed mining operators’ water use by 30 percent in its first three years.

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