For the past eight years, the people of Alberta have been waiting for a wetlands policy that would protect its valuable wetlands from massive degradation by the tar sands industry. Over these eight years, tar sands development has destroyed hundreds of thousands of precious wetlands in Alberta’s boreal forest, one of North America’s most significant remaining carbon storehouses. In 2008, when Alberta’s initial wetland policy revision was put on the back burner, it was estimated that current and proposed tar sands development would destroy 200,000 acres of wetland. By 2010, that estimate had climbed to nearly 500,000 acres. Today, the area threatened by tar sands development has spread to nearly 750,000 acres (an area the size of Rhode Island). Read more:- theenergycollective/danielle-droitsch/274131/climate-beware-albertas-new-wetland-policy-gives-pass-tar-sands-industry-ig?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=hootsuite_tweets
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:28:51 +0000
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