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cbxer55
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 Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:18 am Post subject: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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I do not know if this was posted here before. Probably and I did not find it. I stumbled on this last night. What a environmental disaster this mess is. And the  government just keeps rubber-stamping anything tar sands related.
Heaven help us when we have to resort to this just to get a bit of oil. Ya gotta love those entailing ponds!   
http://www.onearth.org/article/canadas-highway-to-hell |
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cbxer55
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jimmyz
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: Re: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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| where are the before pics? |
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cbxer55
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject: Re: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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| jimmyz wrote: | | where are the before pics? |
Wish I had some. They are probably on the net somewhere.
But the after pics sure are beauties, huh? |
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DoomWarrior
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: Re: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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| Shows how desperate we are for oil ......... and this is only the beginning. |
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Denny
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject: Re: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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| Very impressive pictures. It is amazing to see the immensity of it all. |
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Pablo2079
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject: Re: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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There are some before pics later on in the slide show.... or at least pics that show what the boreal forest was probably like before the mining.
This is just the beginning |
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alokin
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject: Re: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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| are there serious protests in Canada? Like occupations, huge demonstrations etc? |
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eric_b
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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I could not stop shaking my head, and laughing, as I read that. Completely rape the land to squeeze out a little oil. And it's profitable. Demonstrates the need and demand for oil.
I liked this bit:
| Quote: | | But for friendly Canada the tar sands are rapidly becoming an environmental liability as well as an economic hurricane. Described by the United Nations Environment Program as one of the world's top "environmental hot spots," the project will eventually transform a boreal forest the size of Florida into an industrial sacrifice zone complete with lakes full of toxic waste and man-made volcanoes spewing out clouds of greenhouse gases. Are Canadians willing to create an environmental disaster in Alberta in order to provide the U.S. market with some of the most expensive oil in the world? The answer seems to be an emphatic yes. |
We're doomed.
Excellent article.
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seldom_seen
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: Re: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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The US is a world leader in destroying their own countryside.
We don't have anything on Canada though. From the Amazon style devastation of British Columbia's old growth forests to shoveling up the province of Alberta and turning it upside down. They win! |
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TheDude
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject: Re: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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Try using StumbleUpon and searching for tar sands - or anything else - you'll find some interesting stuff. More varied responses than Googling and parsing results.
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vetusfirma
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:28 pm Post subject: Re: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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Now that the Soviet Union is dead, I think Brazil is probably the world leader in destroying their own country. But its so popular to bash America it's understandably that you missed that.
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Homesteader
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:06 am Post subject: Re: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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The IOC open pit iron ore mine outside of Labrador City, Labrador at 100 sq. miles is the largest of its kind in North America. Same kind of country as the tar sands. The Taiga is hauntingly beautiful country.
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Aaron
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:12 am Post subject: Re: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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| seldom_seen wrote: | The US is a world leader in destroying their own countryside.
We don't have anything on Canada though. From the Amazon style devastation of British Columbia's old growth forests to shoveling up the province of Alberta and turning it upside down. They win! |
Just wait till the US begins leveling the Rocky Mountains for Shale.
It's energy negative... it's environmentally devastating & the rate of production is a joke.
And it's a sure bet the US will do it anyway.
Know why?
Despite all the negative implications... it's profitable @ today's oil price.
Talk about Rocky Mountain High... more like Rocky Mountain Wasted out of your freakin' mind.
John Denver wants revenge.
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Ludi
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:19 am Post subject: Re: What a disaster the tar-sands are! |
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Mountain top removal coal mining in the US
Kentucky and West Virginia
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