[Ost-news] Tar Sands Industry Poised to Pollute Canada's Largest Freshwater Aquifer

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Tar Sands Industry Poised to Pollute Canada's Largest Freshwater Aquifer

CALGARY (July 24, 2008) – The Métis Nation in northeastern Alberta has  
discovered that many of Alberta's in situ tar sands projects sit immediately  
below a vast groundwater channel system that flows into the Athabasca River.  
Given the accidental steam blowouts that have already occurred in the  
region, the potential for pollution of Canada's largest freshwater aquifer  
is very real.

"We are deeply concerned about these blowouts," says Rick Boucher,

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    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-industry-poised-pollute-canada039s-largest-freshwater-aquifer

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