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Downstream from the Tar Sands is the First Nations community of Fort Chipewyan, where residents have experienced worrisome health abnormalities. Two First Nations leaders from Fort Chipewyan are coming to Ottawa to tell their story. Hear first-hand accounts of health issues, and about the wider environmental impact of the Tar Sands, Canada's fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Tar sands (... referred to as oil sands) are a combination of clay, sand, water, and bitumen, a heavy black viscous oil. Tar sands can be mined and processed to extract the oil-rich bitumen, which is then refined into oil. The bitumen in tar sands cannot be pumped from the ground in its natural state; instead tar sand deposits are mined, usually using strip mining or open pit techniques, or the oil is extracted by underground heating with additional upgrading.
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Tar Sands watch is a part of the Polaris Institute. Polaris is designed to enable citizen movements to act for democratic social change on major public policy issues in an age of corporate driven globalization.
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