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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