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The tar sands pollution delivery system coming to a Great Lake near you

Posted on October 09, 2008

Yesterday, two important reports were released and their conclusions are startling. First was the Munk Centre's report cataloguing a pollution delivery system from Alberta, Canada, to the Great Lakes. It warned that the air and water pollution from increased tar sands refining in the Great Lakes region will adversely effect the Great Lakes - which represent some 20% percent of the earth's fresh water supplies and serve 30 million people just on the U.S. side of the border. As my colleague, Josh Mogerman, queried Which is more important to North America, fresh water or more oil? The second...

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