Living downstream from Canada’s oil sands mega-project, the people in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta believe they are getting cancer at an alarming rate, and hired their own expert to find out if their food is toxic. Turns out they were right — the fish and water is loaded with “high levels of carcinogens and toxins” (New York Times).

Watch the CBC documentary: http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/2007/12/120907_4.html

For the complete story on the Oil Sands Project that supplies much of America’s oil see: Destroying Canada’s Boreal Forest for America’s Oil