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REPORT REVEALS TOXIC EMISSIONS
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Environment Canada has issued it's first National Pollutant Release Inventory. It documents the tonnes and tonnes of toxic chemicals that are released into the environment as by-products of oil-sands and metal mining operations in this country. We talk to Justin Duncan of the group Ecojustice Canada who went to court to compel Environment Canada to release that information.
Website:
- www.ecojustice.ca
- www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/default.asp?lang=En&n=4A577BB9-1
Photo: Mining trucks carry loads of oil laden sand at the Albian Sands oils sands project in Ft. McMurray, Alberta, Canada (from August 2005). (CP Photo/Jeff McIntosh)
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13 August 2010 - 18:12
Is anyone seriously surprised. N.B. this is all "self-reported" data. Imagine what the reality is!
Sent by Shane Nestruck, Wpg, MB
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