[All] Tar Sands: Environment Canada report released.

[Louisette Lanteigne]

Environment Canada in partnership with Queen's University released a report that reveals man made cause to pollution of lakes up to 90km from Tar Sands. PaH's travelled in the smog generated from Tar Sands was deposited by rain into lakes that were pristine in the 1960's. The contaminate levels of those lakes now equals the pollution of Urban Lakes. 

To view the CBC report visit here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/01/07/pol-oilsands-alberta-lakes-pollution-pah.html

To view the supporting information visit here: 
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/01/02/1217675110/suppl/DCSupplemental


The theory that bitumen was naturally occurring in rivers and lakes is busted. 

Lulu 
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