@article {22055,
	title = {Does the Alberta tar sands industry pollute? The scientific evidence},
	volume = {	3	},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {	65-81	},
	publisher = {	The Open Conservation Biology Journal	},
	abstract = {	The extent to which pollution from tar sands industrial activities in northeastern Alberta, Canada affects ecosystem and human health is a matter of growing concern that is exacerbated by uncertainty. In this paper we determine whether physical and ecological changes that result from tar sands industrial activities are detectable. We analyze a diverse set of environmental data on water and sediment chemistry, contaminants in wildlife, air emissions, pollution incidents, traditional ecological observations, human health, and landscape changes from the Athabasca Tar Sands region, Canada.	},
	keywords = {biodiversity, boreal ecosystems, contaminants, ecosystem, fish, fish deformities, health risk, human health, pollution, public health, sediment, tar sands, traditional ecological observations, water},
	isbn = {	1874-8392	},
	url = {http://benthamscience.com/open/openaccess.php?toconsbj/articles/V003/65TOCONSBJ.htm},
	author = {Timoney, Kevin P. and Lee, Peter}
}
