{"id":6560,"date":"2012-03-02T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6560"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:19:55","slug":"alberta-tar-sands-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/03\/02\/alberta-tar-sands-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Tar Sands Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Athabasca<\/a>The Alberta Tar Sands Project is in the U.S. news a lot these days. As a U.S. citizen, I’m usually focused on the potential effects of the Keystone XL pipeline contaminating aquifers and soil. This TEDx video shows the effects on Canada. The Alberta Tar Sands is basically just a huge strip mine that goes on as far as the eye can see.<\/p>\n

The scale is immense. To get the oil out of the tar sands, massive amounts of water is forced through the rock. The water is then put into tailings ponds. A 9000 acre tailings pond is not unusual there.<\/p>\n

The tar sands mines drain into the Athabasca River<\/a>, which carries toxins down the river. People are told not to eat the fish because they’re carcinogenic.<\/p>\n

The talk is seventeen minutes long and very informative. The photos in Garth Lenz’s presentation are worth watching.<\/p>\n