[Ost-news] Crude awakening: Why are environmentalists asleep at the tar sands wheel?

[Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America]

Crude awakening  
Why are environmentalists asleep at the tar sands wheel?  
BY Dru Oja Jay

Alberta’s tar sands are on pace to become the largest industrial project in human history. The development will arguably become the single most environmentally destructive undertaking in Canadian history. The response from environmental groups and progressives has been meek.

Stéphane Dion told The New York Times in 2005 that, “There is no environmental minister on Earth who can stop the oil from coming out of the sand, because the money is too big.”

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    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/crude-awakening-why-are-environmentalists-asleep-tar-sands-wheel

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