Big trucks, dead ducks put Alberta’s oilsands under environmental scrutiny
Image source: Caterpillar.
Two things helped make Alberta’s oilsands a top North American environmental concern — ducks and trucks.
Like most Canadian industrial developments, there was little oversight of the impact of bitumen mining on the land, water and air until the 1970s, when provincial and federal environment departments were established.
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