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Ducks per gallon
Tar sands are hardly 'environmentally responsible' |
Josh Dorner |
02 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Alberta's tar sands got yet another huge black eye this week when as many as 500 ducks died after simply landing on a giant pond full of highly toxic oil sands tailings. Only five were said to have survived their toxic plunge. A member of a Canadian environmental watchdog group described the water found in the ponds as follows: Drinking a glass of water from a tailings pond would be like drinking a diluted glass of oil or gasoline. Whether the bitumen is cooked ... |
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| Topics: Alberta, animal welfare, energy, environmental movement, international politics, oil sands, politics (all these topics) |
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