<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Explosive new report released by Environmental Defence today focuses on water use and Tarsands. Here are some of the highlights: </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><ul><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">11 million litres of toxic tar sands waste leak into Athabasca River & watershed. Basic water monitoring is notably absent in the Tar Sands.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif;"> Not one single Tar Sands company was in compliance with Alberta’s Directive 074 to accelerate cleaning tailings pond cleanups. </span><br></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The tar sands create 250 million litres of toxic waste — every day.</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Basic water monitoring is notably absent in the Tar Sands</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: transparent;">More than 95% of the water drawn from the Athabasca River and used in tar sands operations is too toxic to return to natural cycle. </span><br></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;
background-color: transparent;">No enforced limits for water taking from Athabasca River even if water is getting too low to support the life!</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tailings lakes can cover an area 50 per cent bigger in size than the City of Vancouver</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The tar sands create 250 million litres of toxic waste — every day.</span><br></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Environment Canada scientists </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">confirmed toxins in Athabasca, but were <span
style="text-decoration: underline;">prevented</span> from talking to public & media</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Plan to triple tar sands production by 2030 will increase fresh water use by 170%. </span><br></li></ul></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Details here: </font><a
href="http://environmentaldefence.ca/realitycheck?utm_source=Environmental+Defence+Campaign+Email+List&utm_campaign=740d8cf2d1-Lighten+Up+FINAL&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_df56834cfa-740d8cf2d1-27177993">http://environmentaldefence.ca/realitycheck?utm_source=Environmental+Defence+Campaign+Email+List&utm_campaign=740d8cf2d1-Lighten+Up+FINAL&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_df56834cfa-740d8cf2d1-27177993</a><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Also from Alberta, the Cold Lake Spill may actually date back from a 2009
leak that took place. The two areas of the fluid discoveries are connected by way of the same vertical fracture. It might actually be the same link. Folks are not sure if it is. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/carol-linnitt/report-cold-lake-bitumen-_b_3959348.html?utm_hp_ref=tw">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/carol-linnitt/report-cold-lake-bitumen-_b_3959348.html?utm_hp_ref=tw</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">And from the US, a new report was released showing how oil quadrupled in price over the last decade contributing
to significant debt. The report also states if the US could cut oil use for transportation in half over the next 30 years they could cut their national debt by $5 trillion dollars from 2014 to 2040. Going oil free has it's perks. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.secureenergy.org/OilDebt">http://www.secureenergy.org/OilDebt</a><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Have a good one
everybody. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Lulu</div></div></body></html>