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Visiting a Boreal Village: Life Downstream from Tar Sands Oil

July 31, 2009

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
alberta, biogems, borealforest, canada, cancer, dirtyfuels, firstnation, peace-athabascadelta, tarsands

After I toured some of Alberta's tar sands oil operations last week, I traveled north to Fort Chipewyan, a small village in the Athabasca River Delta. The community is only 60 miles from tar sands central in Fort McMurray, but...continued→

Household Trash Is Managed Better than the TVA’s Coal Ash

January 8, 2009

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
arsenic, cancer, coalash, coalfiredpowerplants, coalindustry, dirtycoal, EPA, kingstonfossilplant, toxins, TVA

Americans have been assaulted on the airwaves with ads about so-called "clean coal." What happened in East Tennessee, where a breach of a coal ash pond at a power plant send a billion gallons of toxic sludge into nearby communities,...continued→