Food for thought: Bitumen is one of the worlds most water-intensive oil products. Each barrel requires the consumption of three barrels of fresh water from the Athabasca River, which is part of the worlds third-largest watershed. Every day, Canada exports one million barrels of bitumen to the United States and three million barrels of virtual water. - Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and The Future of a Continent EVERY DAY! This is why Maude Barlow and water warriors have been fighting the Tar Sands since day one. Industry in the tar sands uses as much water every year as a city of two million people. Ninety percent of this water ends up in the worlds largest impoundments of toxic waste: the tailings ponds. Industrial water monitoring on the Athabasca River is a fraud. Canada has no national water policy and one of the worst records of pollution enforcement of any industrial nation. shortly after the 2010 g8, every other country in the WORLD voted that the UN recognize access to clean water and sanitation as a HUMAN RIGHT. Canada voted against this!!! ....L
Posted on: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:25:42 +0000
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