Tar Sands - Most destructive
Posted on March 24, 2008 at 11:08 am.
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A report by Environmental Defence calling the Alberta Oil Sands, the most destructive project on Earth. Some facts:
- 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 intailing ponds.
- 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 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.
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