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In a groundbreaking Nature Journal article, a group of economists, policy researchers, ecologists, and scientists make the case for a moratorium on new pipelines in North America until a “more coherent approach” can be developed to evaluate tar sands projects in the context of a broader energy and climate strategy, taking into account the long-term and cumulative consequences of multiple projects or of global carbon pollution. “No new oil-sands projects should move forward unless…
Alberta Tar Sands - Before/After via Occupy the EPA
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Before and After picture of the Athabasca river on the left and the Athabasca tar sands on the right after all that you see on the left has been rased to the ground and turned into tar sand excavations and extremely toxic tailing ponds where migratory birds mistaking them for the nearby freshwater wetlands, land and die of poisoning in their thousands.So what you see on the left, what is left of it, will be soon all like the picture on the right and on the scale that is very hard to believe!
| Tweet As Paul Krugman points out, in the NY Times, “fracking” for hydrocarbons, , see pictures at left, would, in fact, be highly subsidized: Fracking — injecting high-pressure fluid into rocks deep underground, inducing the release of fossil fuels
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Driving down a certain stretch of a highway next to the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, you can't see the huge crude oil fields you're passing; a border of trees deliberately blocks the view. There's no...
Oil developers in the Canadian Tar Sands are trying to understand some odd oil eruptions around several drilling platforms where oil is coming up through the ground rather than through the wells they drilled. The latest of these events tarred about 50 acres of forest.
