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  "We are creating an environmental catastrophe that will take centuries to recover from…if we recover at all"
  -- David Suzuki
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  "The great economic boom is going to be the great economic disaster and devastation to our land and people"
  -- Chief Allan Adam, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
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  "There are a number of us who feel this is the biggest unsustainable development on the planet right now."
  -- Dr. David Schindler
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  2-5 barrels of fresh water are used to produce one barrel of oil. Tar sands operations are draining the Peace-Athabasca Delta, which is the collector of more than 1/6 of Canada's fresh watersheds.
  

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