New study confirms that there is no way to repair the damage that tar sands mining does to land and water: #noKXL

Study Disputes Oil Sands 'Restoration' Pledge

New study confirms that there is no way to repair the damage that tar sands mining does to land and water: #noKXL

Reuters An oil sands mining operation on former peat lands near Fort McMurray in Alberta. Most television viewers in Canada have witnessed attempts by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers to buff the environmental image of oil sands. One of its commercials depicts a pleasant forest that an oil company manager says was created on land reclaimed from an oil sands open pit mine. But a study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences disputes the oil industry’s contention that its planted forests may actually be better than the boreal forest they replace. By reducing the amount of wetlands in the region, the authors add, the reclaimed forests will add to the greenhouse gas problems created by the oil sands. “Claims by industry that they will ‘return the land we use — including reclaiming tailings ponds — to a sustainable landscape tha...

Full article: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/study-disputes-...

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U of Alberta Study Disputes Oil Sands 'Restoration' Pledge: [link]
@KCruikshank1 » 14 Mar '12, 12pm
Troubled Oil Sands 'Restoration': Who Needs Wetlands Anyway? #envhist [link]
@nahummer » 13 Mar '12, 10pm
Study Disputes Oil Sands 'Restoration' Pledge - [link] You mean oil companies and the Harper and Alberta gov'ts lie? #tarsands
@tanyakyi » 13 Mar '12, 6pm
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@Ev_1808 » 13 Mar '12, 4pm
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@DJKillList » 13 Mar '12, 4pm
RT @350: New study confirms that there is no way to repair the damage that tar sands mining does to land and water: [link] #noKXL
@350 » 13 Mar '12, 4pm
New study confirms that there is no way to repair the damage that tar sands mining does to land and water: [link] #noKXL
@AnthonyBritneff » 13 Mar '12, 4pm
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Study Disputes Oil Sands 'Restoration' Pledge; 5,734 to 7,241 metric tons /year of C02 no longer stored : [link]
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@jameskeithsloan » 13 Mar '12, 4pm
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RT @350: New study confirms that there is no way to repair the damage that tar sands mining does to land and water: [link] #noKXL
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RT @350: New study confirms that there is no way to repair the damage that tar sands mining does to land and water: [link] #noKXL
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RT @350: New study confirms that there is no way to repair the damage that tar sands mining does to land and water: [link] #noKXL
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RT @350: New study confirms that there is no way to repair the damage that tar sands mining does to land and water: [link] #noKXL
@TomasWyns » 13 Mar '12, 4pm
RT @350: New study confirms that there is no way to repair the damage that tar sands mining does to land and water: [link] #noKXL
@ISF_NatSci » 13 Mar '12, 4pm
RT @350: New study confirms that there is no way to repair the damage that tar sands mining does to land and water: [link] #noKXL
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RT @GreenpeaceCA: Study disputes #oilsands 'restoration' pledge: [link] #tarsands via @nytimes
@drpatfarrell » 13 Mar '12, 1pm
Study Disputes Oil Sands 'Restoration' Pledge: [link]
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@DrRimmer » 13 Mar '12, 5am
Study Disputes Oil Sands 'Restoration' Pledge: [link]
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Study Disputes Oil Sands 'Restoration' Pledge: [link]