“Nowhere else in the world where this much money is being invested”
**REVISED** Oil Stains in the Boreal Forest:
The Environmental Cost of Canada’s Oil Sands
An eBook by Stephen Leahy
Oil Stains in the Boreal Forest is a 30-page eBook presenting a factual overview of the environmental impacts of pumping more than 1.1 million barrels of oil — 175 million litres (50 million gallons) — each day to thirsty US markets.
Based on a 4-part investigative journalism series, leading scientific and environmental experts along with industry officials are interviewed.
Recipe for making a make a gallon of gasoline from the oil sands:
- burn 1500 cubic feet of natural gas
- use up 700 litres of water
- dig up two tonnes of earth and rock
- dump 948 litres (250 gallons) of mine tailings
And that’s just the beginning – now the crude has to be processed.
Oil Stains in the Boreal Forest includes pictures of the destruction of virgin boreal forest, links to access additional information, and a peek at a new economic study that shows oil company profits are subsidized by not having to pay for their pollution.
Download your copy of the updated 2009 version 2.1 today for only $3.75
Oil Stains in the Boreal Forest: The Environmental Cost of Canada’s Oil Sands 2.1
eBook -Version 2.1 (2009) – full-color, 8 1/2 x 11″, 30 pages (14 mb pdf download)
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Stephen Leahy, International Environmental Journalist 
[…] Canada’s oil or tar sands that supply the US with much of its oil is devastating huge swaths of pristine boreal forest, ruining wild rivers and polluting the air of the north Lubber says. For more on the environmental impacts of the biggest industrial project on the planet see Destroying Canada’s Boreal Forest for America’s Oil […]
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Very impressive collection of articles….
Thanks for the tremendous amount of work!