[Ost-news] Tar sands boom swamps the Canadian wilderness

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

Oil sands boom swamps the Canadian wilderness  
Environmentalists want tougher laws to halt the damage, writes Tim Webb  
* Sunday July 20, 2008

Todd Dahlman scoops up a handful of oily sand and smiles. 'This is the  
money - it even smells like money,' says the manager of Shell's Muskeg  
River oil sands mine in the Athabasca region of North Alberta in Canada.

We are standing in the middle of a pit 50m deep that giant diggers  
have hollowed out of the earth. Some 150m beneath our feet lie almost  
a billion barrels of oil.

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