Their Frontier Mine would cost $20 billion, operate for 41 years, and extract 260,000 barrels of bitumen per day.
Their Frontier Mine would cost $20 billion, operate for 41 years, and extract 260,000 barrels of bitumen per day. If it is given the green light its damaging impacts to water, climate, and downstream communities would be felt for much longer than that.
Allowing this project to go forward would be a dramatic step away from the fairer, renewable energy economy we need to be building. #cdnpoli
https://secure.canadians.org/page/31342/action/1?locale=en-CA
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Signed,share! Badman
The risks far exceed any possible benefits. Shut them down, make them pay.
grace diemand it is quite interesting paging through “Late Lessons from Early Warnings” eea.europa.eu – Late lessons from early warnings: the precautionary principle 1896-2000
https://www.eea.europa.eu/media/newsreleases/the-cost-of-ignoring-the
Topics: Environment and health
New technologies have sometimes had very harmful effects, but in many cases the early warning signs have been suppressed or ignored. The second volume of Late Lessons from Early Warnings investigates specific cases where danger signals have gone unheeded, in some cases leading to deaths, illness and environmental destruction.