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A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit
2013-05-17 19:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they've been treated to another sight: a three-story pile of petroleum coke covering an entire city block on the other side of the Detroit River. Brian Masse, a member of the Canadian Parliament, wants a bilateral agency to investigate the pile accumulating in Detroit. Detroit's ever-growing black mountain is the unloved, unwanted and long overlooked byproduct of Canada's oil sands...