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Top Ten Facts abut the Alberta Oil Sands

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PDF - the most destructive Project on Earth

Environmental Defence just released a new report on the Alberta Oil Sands, calling it the most destructive project on Earth. DeSmogblog gleaned some facts from it:

-Oil sands mining is licensed to use twice the amount of fresh water that the entire city of Calgary uses in a year.
-At least 90% of the fresh water used in the oil sands ends up in ends up in tailing ponds so toxic that propane cannons are used to keep ducks from landing.
-Processing the oil sands uses enough natural gas in a day to heat 3 million homes.
-The toxic tailing ponds are considered one of the largest human-made structures in the world. -The ponds span 50 square kilometers and can be seen from space.
-Producing a barrel of oil from the oil sands produces three times more greenhouse gas emissions than a barrel of conventional oil.

Environmental Defense: http://environmentaldefence.ca/campaigns/exposing-tar-sands


Note: The report contents is

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction. . .2
Toxics Downstream . .3
A Giant Slow Motion Oil Spill . .3
Poisoning People? . .4
Government Cover Up – Whistle-blower Silenced . .4
Negligent Oversight . .5
Threatening Canada’s Boreal . .5
The Science of Tar Sands Pollution . .6
Toxics On Site . .7
A Toxic Moonscape . .7
Negligent Monitoring . .8
Implausible Reclamation. .9
Toxics Downwind . .10
Emissions Exploding . .10
Raining Acid on Saskatchewan . .11
Toxics Down the Pipe . .12
Alberta’s Sacrifice Zone – Ugrader Alley. .12
“Supertankers” on BC’s Coastline . .13
Ontario’s Chemical Valley . .13
Exporting Toxics to the USA . .15
A Toxic Future – Tar Sands and Global Warming . .16
Reverse Alchemy – From Gold to Lead. .16
Canada’s Failed Climate Politics . .16
A Tar Sands Tax . . .17
Taking Responsibility . .18
Toxic Enforcement . .19
Fisheries Act . .19
Canadian Environmental Protection Act . . .20
Canadian Environmental Assessment Act . ..20
Alberta Law . .22
Conclusion . .23

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