The world as we know it has changed and is changing dramatically, both Topographically and irrevocably. Around the world actions against the Earth and its future are being taken and in many cases the Earth as we know it will never heal and recover.
For too long now we have put money and wealth ahead of what is right and now is the time to take action to re-gain the perfect earth we need to flourish as a race.
One of the worst environmental disasters of our time is happening as you read this in Canada. An area of the size of England, with pristine wilderness and marsh, is being systematically destroyed in order to extract oil from sand. Oil Sands or Tar Sands is taking place in Alberta and other areas of Canada and it is a truly frightening undertaking and undertaking is not a grave enough word to describe what is happening there.First nation people are being poisoned and contracting serious illnesses like cancer and auto immune diseases as a result of drinking water from downstream where the Tar Sands project is happening. Bitumen is being dug up leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. The sands are made up of a mixture of bitumen,sand,heavy metals and toxic organic chemicals. This sand has to be heated and washed in order to extract the oil, the resulting toxic liquid is held in storage areas known as tailing ponds, the water in these ponds has organic poison,arsenic and mercury contained within it and this water has made its way into the water stream, poisoning not only humans but wildlife as well. Three barrels of water are used to process one barrel of oil, refining requires two to three times as much energy as refining crude oil. The companies exploiting Oil Sands burn enough natural gas to heat six million homes.Albertas Tar Sands operation is the worlds biggest single industrial source of carbon emissions and all of this is taking place just for the oil, the worlds second largest reserve of oil.The project is also the biggest opencast mining operation on earth.
This kind of reckless disregard for the earth must not go unnoticed and unchecked.
If you would like to know more about this please visit www.tarsandswatch.org
