Dominion Special Issue: TAR SANDS

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Exploring Alberta’s Tar Sands: Fuelling whose economy? Subscribe

With more than 173 billion barrels of oil recoverable with current technology and more than $150 billion in committed capital investment, the Alberta tar sands around Ft. MacMurray are considered the largest industrial project on earth.

How do the Alberta tar sands affect you?

Explore the effects, debates and ideologies surrounding this controversial topic through our ever growing media collection.

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Dominion Special Issue: TAR SANDS

Hyperlink: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/print/tar_sands_issue_48

Contributed by Citizen Shift

In Spring 2007, The Dominion Newspaper launched a special issue covering the Alberta Tar Sands. Issued before any mainstream media was covering the topic, it features 48 pages of original content. A few months later, the Globe and Mail began publishing content examing the tar sands and their impact. Click the link to read the issue.