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.