Gristmill: A blogful of leafy green commentary

Visit GristMill

Economic competitiveness: easy when taxpayers pay to clean up your mess

Posted on October 10, 2008

By David RobertsSpeaking of studies on oil sands, there's another one out of the University of Toronto showing that oil sands will pollute the Great Lakes, reversing decades of cleanup efforts in the region. This expansion promises to bring with it an exponential increase in pollution, discharges into waterways including the Great Lakes, destruction of wetlands, toxic air emissions, acid rain, and huge increases in greenhouse gas emissions, [the report] says. The report says that Ontario government is remarkably unengaged in the question of oil sands' environmental impact, and that sta...

Original article link


economic , emissions , greenhouse gas , ontario , renewables , report , studies , toronto