Enbridge wants to build a new tar sands pipeline
Tar sands are the dirtiest fossil fuels. These are low-quality heavy tar-like oils that are mined from sand or rock. Much of the mining occurs in Alberta Canada,but it is also mined elsewhere, in lesser quantities.
Tar sands are the worst. Not only are they really tough to fetch out of the ground, or requiring immense amounts of energy; not only are they difficult to transport and to refine; not only are they more polluting than regular oils; they even have a by-product called “petcoke” that’s used in power plants,but is dirtier than regular coal.
With every barrel of oil burned, my future children and grandchildren’s chances of a long and happy life diminish. I cant stand by while vast Oil profits off the destruction of future generations.
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Source: theguardian.com