Today, the climate damage caused by extracting and burning the tarry bitumen from Albertas oil sands exceeds the combined CO2 emissions from over 100 nations. The industry plans to double their rate of bitumen extraction within a decade. By 2020 the climate pollution from extracting and burning all this bitumen will exceed the combined CO2 emission from over 140 nations -- home to more than one billion people. In the next eight years just the increase in climate pollution from Albertas bitumen will equal the combined CO2 emissions from Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Angola, Yemen, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dominican Republic, Tunisia, Estonia, Lebanon, Virgin Islands, Jordan, Sudan and South Sudan, Lithuania, Panama and Slovenia. And that is just a start.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:29:20 +0000
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