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Freak Fish? There's just no tar sands euphemism for this

Posted on September 05, 2008

We know that tar sands oil produces 3-5 times the climate changing emissions of traditional petroleum oil production on a per barrel basis. But what about it's mutating power? Perhaps, that is increased too? Just check out this photo of a fish, recently caught downstream from the Patch (the Albertans euphemistic name for the tar sands mining area). Two mouths make him look pretty angry, eh?All kidding aside, this photo, taken by Ling Wang of the Mikisew Cree First Nation, has gotten a lot of attention in Canada where it symbolizes the angst that many Canucks are feeling over tar sands ...

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