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Canadian Tar Sands Industry & Government Maintains Higher Water Toxicity Near Projects is Natural

map: Wikipedia The Canadian tar sands industry-government group Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program doesn’t much like a recent report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that tar sands projects are responsible for elevated levels of water toxicity downstream from projects. RAMP’s Fred Kuzmic maintains that any to… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Brave Protestors Strip to Skivvies to Protest Tar Sands. Would You?

Image courtesy of Lush Cosmetics. Rainforest Action Network ( RAN ) is one busy non-profit: This morning we wrote about their success with luxury brand Gucci’s switch to FSC-certified paper bags and now they’re kicking off a campaign with Lush Cosmetics to protest Canadian tar sands oil. The cosmetic brand has (somehow) persuaded their employees to don only “barrels” of oil printed with the slogan “Time For An Oil Change Or We’ll Lose It All”, at select Lush Cosmetics stores nation-wide, tomorrow… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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