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Alberta Tar Sands: Dirty Oil May 9th, 2010
The recent oil-related ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico raises questions about the sources of the energy on which we are so dependent. An increasingly important source of oil for the United States is the tar sands of Alberta, Canada.
The Alberta Tar sands, an extremely dense and viscous form of petroleum called bitumen, have been referred to as the most damaging project on the planet. According to Greenpeace, emissions from tar sands extraction could grow to between 127 and 140m tonnes by 2020, exceeding the current emissions of Austria, Portugal, Ireland and Denmark. If proposed expansion proceeds,it will result in the loss of vast tracts of boreal forest and peat bogs of a territory the size of England.
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