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Tar-sands mining in Canada is unleashing mercury pollution

2014-01-03 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Drilling for tar-sands oil in Alberta has long been recognized as a driver of climate change, helping to nudge the mercury up in thermometers around the world. Now, it appears that it`s also dousing the Canadian province with straight-up mercury pollution. Canadian government researchers have discovered that oil-sands operations have puffed out mercury over 4.7 million acres of northeast Alberta, boosting levels to as much as 16 times higher than background levels. Mercury is a potent poison that`s...

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