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Globe and Mail: Canada's oil sands mining operations produce vast and fast-growing quantities of deadly substances, including mercury, heavy metals and arsenic, new data released by Environment Canada shows. The information on pollutants sheds new light on the environmental toll exacted by Canada's bid to extract oil from bitumen, showing in stark relief how many nasty substances are being laid on the northern Alberta landscape in the process -- and how quickly those are growing. In the past ......
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Canada: Oil sands toxins growing rapidly
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 10th, 2010
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