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Tag: bitumen

Drilling for “oil” in the nursery

Sharon McInnes March 28, 2013 March 27, 2013Bird Canada Athabasca tar sands, bitumen, boreal birds, Boreal forest, Enbridge, Global Warming, oil sands, Syncrude, tailings ponds, tar sands

Some of Enbridge’s oil tanks are decorated with illustrations of lovely Canada Geese in flight. Let’s just hope they don’t land in the tar sands tailing ponds. Almost all the largest oil companies are currently mining and drilling in the Boreal forest and wetlands where more than half of the birds …

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