GEO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Heavy Crude Oil, Toxicology, Environment And Climate Change Canada
8 Dec 2020
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Canada"s resources in the context of environmental impacts. Alberta oil sands one of the largest deposits of heavy crude oil. Global price pf oil has increased high enough to make exploiting the oil sands worthwhile. Have known for a while, but price of oil high enough that can cover costs of. Tipping point: age of the oil sands (nature of things, 2015 re-aired) One of the great ___ ecosystems athabasca river and town and oil sands . Illness cancer diagnoses as environment contaminated of indigenous communities carrying toxins and carcinogens. Arsenic and lead and other carcinogens brought to the surface and entering water ways, and the more developed, more that enters. Affecting indigenous communities" ways of life, livelihoods, health. Killing the river , native land claims, all downstream of the oil sands. Betrayal of treaty chief"s grandfather signed leaving scars on the environment.
