The oil sands and Athabasca River in Alberta as seen through an airplane window’s glare. The Athabasca River flows past a tailings pond.
The oil sands and Athabasca River in Alberta as seen through an airplane window’s glare. The Athabasca River flows past a tailings pond.
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How can they say oil sands are safe. Toxic chemicals leaking into river are almost a sure thing. If extraction must happen then have it be taxed heavily and use that money to fund clean energy research and build (hydro dams, wind turbines, solar panels etc..) projects suitable to the environment its going to be used at so we never have to dig up oil again. The company must put the dig site back to original status,although i believe this is impossible. what also happens to the toxic water after fracking? Not like it can be filtered and made clean. Most likely its left in a chemical pool until all or most of it leaks into rivers and underwater reservoirs.Even if stored in deep wells, all things are connected, it will leak and we will feel its toxicity maybe not in our lifetime but surely in the future generations.