Tar Sand Oil casestudy
the search for new resources- Environmentally sensitive. Athabasca River, Canada
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- Created on: 30-09-14 12:57
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- Environmentally sensitive
- TAR SAND OIL Alberta, Canada Athabasca River
- Extreme deforestation
- 140,000km2
- Boreal forest
- reduction in bio diversity
- Toxic sludge
- 1/160 litres leaks
- Greenhouse gas 1.3 million car equivalent a day
- Wildlife & locals effected by tailing ponds
- TAILING PONDS: large, man made lakes made from toxic waste water. polluting local water supplies, leading to increased cancer levels (carcinogenic)
- government covering up
- Extreme deforestation
- TAR SAND OIL Alberta, Canada Athabasca River
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