Oil Sands Slips Up With Inadequate Monitoring
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Politics, Video on 12 27th, 2010 | no responses
In a new report (PDF), a high-level scientific panel has sharply criticized the water quality monitoring system in Alberta’s oil sands development near Fort McMurray, Alberta. The panel says, “there is no system” despite supposedly 13 years of rigorous scientific data.
The panel says “We are back at square one” even though most Canadians believed that the water monitoring system was world class.
High levels of toxins associated with the costly extraction of oil from sand deposits have been found in rivers downstream from the massive project. And fish with significant deformities are also becoming more common in the area.
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