• "We are creating an environmental catastrophe that will take centuries to recover from…if we recover at all"
    -- David Suzuki

  • "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

  • "There are a number of us who feel this is the biggest unsustainable development on the planet right now."
    -- Dr. David Schindler

  • 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.