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TitleAre the oilsands ethical?
Publication TypeNewspaper Article
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsWeisbord, M.
Volume 11-Feb
Publisher The Globe and Mail
Place Published Toronto: The Globe and Mail
Publication Language en
ISBN Number 0319-0714
KeywordsFirst Nations, fishing, food sources, greenhouse gas emissions, hunting, oil sands, oil spills, Suncor, Syncrude Canada Ltd.
Abstract

What if, as scientific studies and activists tell us, it's true that there are higher than normal toxins in the Athabasca River around the oil sands, and that these elevated toxins harm indigenous peoples' hunting/fishing food sources and cause health problems, including increased cancers; that 34,000 tonnes of oil sand-related particulates fall every year near the Suncor and Syncrude facilities and that, if these fine particulates were released in a single incident, it would be the equivalent of a major oil spill; that the oil sands are a fast-growing source of Canada's industrial greenhouse-gas emissions and that Alberta expects a 58-per-cent rise above 1990 emission levels by 2020, thus increasing our globally irresponsible emissions.

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Topics

oil sands, First Nations

Locational Keywords

Athabasca River

Group

CEMA

Citation Key22073

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