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Some facts on the Albertan oil sands

lakesdistrictnews | July 24, 2011 | 9:11 pm Energy Canada 

Oil sands are also commonly referred to as tar sands. According to The Tyee [www.thetyee.ca] the term tar sands was more widely used than oil sands to describe Alberta’s bitumen fields until the 1960s, when the provincial government made it a formal policy to call it oil sands.

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