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Library Late Fees in Alberta Are 16 Times Bigger than Environmental Fines at the Alberta Tar Sands

Posted on July 03, 2008

George Peridas, NRDCThe Alberta Tar Sands are called by some the most destructive project on earth, and their toxic tailing ponds kill birds and are poisoning downstream native communities. It has the worst air quality in the country, and companies regularly run afoul of exceedance limits, but in 2006 all of the oil companies were fined only $ 249,000. Library patrons in Calgary and Edmonton, on the other hand, were fined $4 million for overdue books. The Tar Sands is the largest fossil fu... ...

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air quality , alberta , calgary
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