Industry to pay for oilsands monitor: federal official says
Posted: March 25, 2011Mike De Souza, Postmedia News, OTTAWA — The oilsands sector will be expected to pay up for a new...Read More

Water Depletion
Oil sands plants typically use two to four barrels of water to extract a barrel of oil from the tar sands, but some extraction methods can use as much as 7 barrels of water. The amount of water needed for the tar sands is seriously lowering the water levels of the Athabasca River, the Mackenzie Valley watershed and other related water sources in the region.
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