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The Oilsands - Not so bad after all?
December 15, 2010 - 11:50am
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In a report to be released Wednesday, a seven-member panel from the Royal Society of Canada says there's "no credible evidence" that contaminants from the oilsands are boosting cancer levels in downstream communities.
It also says the Athabasca River isn't currently threatened by industrial water use.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/12/15/oilsands-scientists.html
As much as it would be nice to be able to believe them, I am having trouble doing so.
There is "no credible evidence" because there is no credible water quality monitoring program. There has been a federal water monitoring station on the Athabasca river downstream from the tar sands development for over 20 years, but they do not test for hydrocarbons or heavy metals, the very contaminants that the tar sands are suspected of affecting downstream communities with.
If you don't look, you won't find.
from the link above:
And yet CBC is announcing every half hour that the oilsands are "less toxic" than previously thought.
The CBC needs to be gone....
Yeah, that'll ensure we get nothing but the truth from the media.
Don't care about that, care about my money going to pay the wages of those who are complicit in lying to us and who are part of the hostilities against equity and equality.
Your money is paying Stephen Harper's wages. I'd cut him off before I abolish publicly-funded broadcasting.
Cutting him off is not going to happen, or change a thing.
For example, some people are too busy trying to promote his partner in crime Ignatieff and the Liberals, and tearing down those who would make the CBC a credible national voice for ALL Canadians, so it would be the same damn thing in a change to a Liberal government.
Proof?
CBC has been the same all along, propaganda agents for either the CONS, or the other CONs, the "Liberals". And we have stupidedly pay for our own brain washing for the last 3 decades.
The CBC has no credibility and they have not for a long time. There is no point to their existence, other than a publically paid for proaganda arm. Just like our military are actually mercenaries, paid for by us, for corporate interests in Afghanistan, the CBC exists just to have us pay for continued corporate pleasure and indoctrination.
They are NOT a 'national broadcaster', they are a propaganda clearing house.
CBC was reporting this morning on Pembina's response. It was on radio, but not the web site.
http://www.pembina.org/media-release/2141
There is a newer report out, "Oil-sands more damaging than thought".
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/12/21/oilsands-pollution-report.html
Kind of hard to make conclusions without a proper monitoring system in place.
That is understood in the PMO. Like the census.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2010/12/22/alberta-suncor-oilsand...
Oooh. $200,000. That will certainly teach them.
That's my old home town, just came back home from about ten days up there for the holidays visiting family.
Dad had a good point he mentioned in one conversation, he wondered what it would be like if by a chance of geography Fort McMurray was located downstream of all the oil sands plants instead of being upstream like it is.