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Accident leads to scrutiny of oil sand production
2014-05-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In the annals of oil well blowouts and pipeline disasters, the 7,400 barrels of oily slush that oozed out of the mossy bogs of the boreal forest in northeast Alberta last summer may seem like a trivial matter. No one was hurt in the accident, which spread across at least 17 acres in the Primrose oil sands field, and the most damage to wildlife came from the killing of about 70 frogs in a lake contaminated by the leak. It has since been drained. But while the accident has so far been overshadowed...
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