Ring of Mercury Contamination Around DIRTY CANADA TAR SANDS

The Dirty Energy Koch Brothers who brought you the Tea Party stand to enrich themselves further with Dirty Tar Sands, environment be damned!

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This new tar sands finding is not surprising, but no less devastating. Read more here: http://alj.am/19BLOTA

SHARE if you agree: tar sands are bad for the climate, bad for the land, and bad for people. We're going to spend 2014 fighting them harder than ever.

 

 

Researchers have found a nearly 7,300-square-mile ring of land and water contaminated by mercury surrounding the tar sands in Alberta. Mercury levels were 16 ...times higher in the areas surrounding the tar sands operations. Read more about this important study here: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/29/7-500-mile-ring-ofmercuryfoundaroundcanadastarsands.html

 

 

The excavation of tar sands in Alberta is wrecking our climate, violating the rights of First Nation people and poisoning the air, water and land. LIKE and SHARE if it's time to stop this senseless destruction.See More

 

Blame this on DEREGULATION, slashing funding for oversight and inspection, obstructing government function, and allowing Big Corporations to govern.

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"billowing flames and smoke that resembled a mushroom cloud." Thankfully no one was hurt, but can we please stop hauling tar sands oil by pipeline AND by rail?

Cassleton, N.D. residents flee town after oil train explosion

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majority of the 2,300 residents of Cassleton, N