tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070977933232664642.post7612194162041395388..comments2024-02-21T12:23:30.416-06:00Comments on PLANET IN PERIL: 340 Billion Gallons of Sludge Spur Environmental Fears in CanadaGraham Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678179625435076216noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070977933232664642.post-55525404638792136432018-01-19T15:20:52.774-06:002018-01-19T15:20:52.774-06:00Don't YOU care? Please enter YOUR comment here...Don't YOU care? Please enter YOUR comment here! PinPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070977933232664642.post-6267023860263143162018-01-19T13:37:31.304-06:002018-01-19T13:37:31.304-06:00TAR SANDS, a Man Made Hiroshima 'without the A...TAR SANDS, a Man Made Hiroshima 'without the Atom Bomb'.<br /><br />Water- the most important resource that all living things need to survive and exist <br /><br />on this earth, but at the oil sands it is treated with contempt. It is poisoned, <br /><br />contaminated and ravaged by the industries in their relentless search and <br /><br />processing of the black gold, and all with the approval of our government(s) Little <br /><br />caring and not registering, once this precious life sustaining liquid is polluted and <br /><br />undrinkable, we will be exterminating ourselves to extinction. For whatever we do <br /><br />to the web strands of life, we ultimately do to ourselves. Will we, as a society, ever <br /><br />learn?. Perhaps,..but unfortunately, only after it is too late.! According to <br /><br />executives of the biggest energy companies, some of us are in the land of make <br /><br />believe and are being misled by sensational news and unfounded allegations.I do <br /><br />not agree. When I see photographs and read that 17,600 hectares of tailing ponds <br /><br />presently exist, with a toxic blend of hydrocarbons, silt, salts and heavy minerals <br /><br />and reported as a lingering headache for the industry, I get troubled and <br /><br />concerned, as we all should. I do not believe these are make believe and <br /><br />unfounded news clips. In fact, talks have been underway about conditions <br /><br />under which water from these ponds could be released into the environment. <br /><br />In 2014, it was confirmed the tailing ponds are leaking into the ground and<br /><br />polluting the Athabasca river. <br /><br />One way or another, humans are quite willing, it seems, to allow themselves to be <br /><br />terminated in the process of promoting economic benefits to the oil masters,with <br /><br />the blessings of the federal government.<br />John Fefchaknoreply@blogger.com