"It takes two tons of tar sands -- strip-mined or drilled from the forest floor -- to produce a single barrel of tar sands bitumen, a low-grade, high-sulfur crude oil that must be extensively refined to be turned into fuel. Producing bitumen generates three times the carbon pollution of producing conventional North American crude oil. And the additional refining required to turn this crude into fuel only makes matters worse. Tar sands producers have already destroyed an area the size of Chicago creating an industrial wasteland of toxic sludge dams in the heart of Canada's boreal forest, one of the last truly wild places on Earth and the traditional territory of Aboriginal communities who have lived on these lands for thousands of years. If it continues, the total sacrifice area will be as large as the state of Florida."
"Why I Got Arrested at the White House to Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline" by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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PHOTOS: Destructive Canada Oil Sands - Business Insider
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