Horrific Environmental Pollution In Canada
 

Tar sand oil recovery is ruining water supplies! Carcinogens are showing in samples of lake and underground water supplies.

http://americablog.com/2013/01/carci...oil-sands.html

"Despite what pro-oil sands (also called tar sands) supporters have said, the problem of higher than usual carcinogen levels is what many scientists already suspected following a Canadian study. In addition, the carcinogen levels are more widely disbursed than previously suspected.

To the surprise of no one, some oil sands supporters have even suggested that the environmental issues related to tar sands excavation are natural. It?s not unlike the GOP?s favorite Rush Limbaugh who said the oil from the BP spill was ?as natural as the ocean water is? back in May 2010. Yeah, cyanide is natural too.

The pollution even reached a remote lake 50 miles away from the oil sands site, which was the limit of the testing.

The development of Alberta?s oil sands has increased levels of cancer-causing compounds in surrounding lakes well beyond natural levels, Canadian researchers reported in a study released on Monday. And they said the contamination covered a wider area than had previously been believed?.

?Now we have the smoking gun,? Professor Smol said.

He said he was not surprised that the analysis found a rise in PAH deposits after the industrial development of the oil sands, ?but we needed the data.? He said he had not entirely expected, however, to observe the effect at the most remote test site, a lake that is about 50 miles to the north.

Canada has threatened a trade war with European Union over the bloc?s plan to label oil from Alberta?s vast tar sands as highly polluting, the Guardian can reveal, before a key vote in Brussels on 23 February. ?Canada will not hesitate to defend its interests, including at the World Trade Organisation,? state letters sent to European commissioners by Canada?s ambassador to the EU and its oil minister, released under freedom of information laws. The move is a significant escalation of the row over the EU?s plans, which Canada fears would set a global precedent and derail its ability to exploit its tar sands, which are the biggest fossil fuel reserve in the world after Saudi Arabia. Environmental groups argue that exploitation of the tar sands, also called oil sands, is catastrophic for the global climate, as well as causing serious air and water pollution in Alberta."

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Yeah it's a mess up there.

Could the contamination in Canada affect the USA's water supplies?

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Don't worry. We are destroying our water all on our own with Fracking. :thumbsup

Probley but you dont pay your bills anyway soo....

considering the water flows NORTH........

woops, I forgot about that American Education system again....

Yeah, just like the Mississippi River flows into the St. Lawrence.

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there's that education system again, the Mississippi is no where near the oil sands.

Tar stained jean jackets = new fad?

You're right.

It is DOWNFUCKINGSTREAM from the horrific Canadian pollution and therefore subject to CONTAMINATION from the mistakes and corporate irresponsibility of the Frozen North!

Look at a globe, dimwit!

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"OTTAWA -- Canada's air and water quality is getting worse, Statistics Canada reported Monday.

Reviewing key indicators from 1990 to 2005, the statistical agency found a 12 per cent increase in ground-level ozone, a major component of smog, over the 15-year period. The increases were particularly noteworthy in southern Ontario and southern Quebec.

Smog is created from ozone and fine particulate matter that come from transportation, electricity generation, wood burning and the use of some chemical products.

The Statistics Canada report also found that water quality was "poor" or "marginal" in 23 per cent of sites tested.

Overall, it concluded that Canada was falling short of accepted quality standards required for protecting fish, plants and other aquatic life. The main source of pollution appeared to be phosphorus from sewage, agriculture runoff and industrial waste, according to the report."

Read more:

http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyand...7-560cd8703573

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Ok,

#1, the oil sands are in Alberta, not Ontario dude. You're making yourself look even stupider.

#2. the majority of population, thus pollution, in the the area you are mentioning is in the USA. Canadians just have more world sense and try and clean up your messes.

#3. I live in Manitoba, and have to deal with the crap Americans put into the red river every day as it flows into Lake Winnipeg, 150 feet from where I'm sitting right now. The red river is DISGUSTING, and that's an AMERICAN issue polluting Canada. Some American towns dump their sewage into it RAW. Lake Winnipeg was just named the most endangered polluted fresh water lake in the world recently thanks to America.

Please go back anad READ the article cited if you CAN read!

Also please porovide citations for your allegations.

Please bear in mind that all such citations will indeed be refuted by reliable sources.

And what about the Canucks and the seal hunts?

You haven't touched on that one yet!

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Well, what about it, punk?

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OK, LET ME BE CLEAR HERE. ALBERTA IS WHERE THE OIL SANDS ARE.
The Mississippi is no where NEAR Alberta.
No internet article is going to change that and make you suddenly look smart. you're not. time to come to terms with that fact.


and baby seals are DELICIOUS!
Don't you be fucking with my McSeal burger now boy.

We all know why you are Canadian Hating. You've always thought America was undefeated. Nope, even the white house got torched by CANADIANS!

guess what, you lost Vietnam too.
Iraq didn't go soo well
You're STILL in Afghanistan.....

you're not as tough as you thought you were, now AND in the past

and that hurts.

guess what, you're just starting to realize you were fed PROPAGANDA in school.
sucks to grow up doesn't it?


suddenly you realize other nations aren't just pushovers like you thought they were.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............

Red Herrings.......................

............the last refuge of the defeated.

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your first line was "Tar sand oil recovery is ruining water supplies! "

the tar sands are no where near the Mississippi and the water there flows north.

idiot


red herring - blahhh, I prefer smoked goldeye myself.......but I'm on an inland ocean with freshwater fish where I live, not at either coast line

are you like the new dumb ass of gfy ?

Just FYI this is maybe the most common thing. :( I mean worldwide.

Another remark: size of population is not necessarily meaning they are the big polluters. :2 cents:

worldwide maybe, but Canada and the USA are first world countries and both should know and do better.

you're right about population and pollution.....it's possible but not usually the case

I'm no radical enviro-nut. But this isn't cool, companies/countries really need to put more into being as environmentally friendly as possible. Especially when it comes to water contamination.

I really feel sorry for kids a few generations from now. China alone pollutes so much thousands of its citizens are dying monthly from air and water pollution. I also read an article on the NY Times that said that contaminated air is making its way as far as the USA's west coast. Pretty sad we here in the US are trying to go as green as possible, while China is polluting more and more every week.

Wow, get a clue. The Mississippi is in the USA and water above that flows north.

Country with 10x the population and lower environmental standards who send their air pollution at us on a daily basis forever, is giving us a speech about pollution?

Bitch please.

SallyRand needs to go to the doctor and get her hormone levels checked.