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Oil drilling wastes, long buried under Canada's permafrost, leak into environment
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: For decades, companies exploring for oil and gas in the Arctic's remote southern reaches have disposed of their drilling waste in the cheapest and most convenient way possible: by digging massive pits to hold the waste and then capping them with frozen permafrost. And for decades, the waste harmlessly sat in the frozen tombs. Then climate change, which scientists say is caused by burning fossil fuels, set in, causing the permafrost to begin melting. A "sump" of oil drilling mud, supposedly...
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