Calgary Herald: As 2008 draws to a close, there’s still no resolution to Alberta’s seminal environmental event of the year. The provincial government has yet to decide whether to lay charges against Syncrude Canada Ltd. after discovering 500 dead ducks in April in one of the company’s tailing ponds. Even if tens of thousands of ducks die every year through other means — as Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach pointed out in the days after the ducks drowned in the oil slick — the grim find made media …