This is what the tar sands did to Alberta’s boreal forests. Image via Boreal Song Bird Initiative You’ve likely heard about the infamous Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada. They’re a major source of controversy in the energy world and the environmental community (to put it lightly), and for good reason. Extracting oil from tar sands is far more degrading to the environment than typical oil extraction, as the process destroys forest, emits substantially more greenhouse gas, contaminates nearby habitat, and consumes mammoth amounts of water. And now, the United States cou… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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First US Tar Sands Project Approved in Utah
