[Ost-news] Canada's tar sands are fueling U.S. cars - but at what cost?

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

Canada's oil sands are fueling U.S. cars - but at what cost?  
McClatchy Newspapers  
Published Sunday, December 16, 2007

FORT CHIPEWYAN, Alberta — Like a great silver snake, the Athabasca  
River glides though a spongy-wet wilderness of spindly forests, lakes  
and marshes 650 miles north of the U.S.-Canada border.

Breathe deeply, though, and you catch a whiff of fresh, hot tar. In  
the river, fish are speckled with shiny, wart-like blisters. And in  
the tiny Indian village of Fort Chipewyan, people are coming down  
with leukemia, bile duct cancer and other diseases.

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