Birds and Canada's Tar Sands: Why America's Number 1 Source of Oil is Removing Millions of Birds

Dr. Jeff Wells explains how Canada's tar sands (US' #1 source of oil, over Saudi Arabia), will likely result in millions of birds lost, where waterfowl land and die, and through habitat loss and water and air pollution. Most North American migratory birds breed in Canada, but are finding it increasingly difficult due to massive industrial projects like the tar sands.

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• birds
• tar sands
• oil
• oilsands
• oil sands
• migratory birds
• waterfowl
• fowl
• oily
• oiled
• toxic
• tailings
• tailings ponds
• pollution
• habitat
• breeding
• ecosystem
• environment

[Futurist54]

Its obvious to me, judging by some of the comments, some people do not understand that the boreal forest is the home and breeding grounds to many millions of North American songbirds and the Oil Sands are a Strip Mining as well as Polluting Venture destructive to local native people,as well as fish, bird and various animal life) This mass pollution and ecological destruction has to stop, its insane!

[chinodan]

Like Jim Morrison would say... What have we done to the earth????

[PlainzRyder]

Fuck the ducks!

[mrryencoke]

A couple of hundred ducks die in a freak accident at a tailing pond as compared to thousands of of all types of birds dying daily in a single wind farm. hmmm. Can you imagine if at the start of the great oil boom in Texas and the Gulf, a bunch of foreigners went down there and tryed telling Americans not to extract that oil because its bad for the environment?

[tangerinevivid]

just so you know, the picture you used to show "tailings ponds" are actually the fresh water ponds at Suncor. it might help your case to at least get the info right

[sixinafour]

@TheLiptonGroup

Outstanding comment.

DRT 2 OIL

ALBERTA ROCKS !!!!!!

[crashishlaroche]

If you think that thousands and thousands of acres of forest are going to be strip mined without some very very serious environmental impacts, you are either ignorant or willfully ignorant. Come on, seriously. Less than a tenth of a percent of the mined area has been reclaimed to date. Millions of gallons of poluted water are left in retention ponds, and there are documented cases of it being released into the watershed. This is our home. We only have one. Where does it end???

[crashishlaroche]

Have you been up there? Have you seen what it looks like?? Instead of spewing your explitives and hate, why don't you think about what we are doing to the planet. Os does that simple not matter to you?

[crashishlaroche]

Disgusting. We're turning northern Alberta into a digusting, polluted wasteland so Americans (and Canadians, too) can continue to drive to walmart and buys useless stuff, most of which is not at all necessary and will not improve their quality of life. This system of constant consumtion is insane. Read The Lorax for fuck sakes!!! Dr. Suess got it right long ago.

Let's reduce consumtion, lower population (in Canada that means no or very little immigration), live more sustainably. Wake up!!

[crashishlaroche]

Yeah, sure. Who gives a shit. And fuck all the other animals too. As long as that economy is growing, right? Fuck the animals. Fuck the natural world, who needs it.

[TheLiptonGroup]

Big Deal.... This country eats a few million birds, every single day. They're called chickens.

The chickens dont' have much of a choice. They're stuck in these warehouses, until they are slaughtered

But these birds in Canada, have nothing to complain about. If they don't like their situation, all they have to do is FLY - FLY - FLY away, someplace else. Go to Hawaii, Florida, South America

These wild Canadian birds shouldn't even be complaining.. If you don't like it - leave