Environment Canada Preparing 'Secret' Report on the Oilsands Impact

'Secret' Environment Canada presentation warns of oilsands' impact on habitat

Environment Canada and the Canadian government are at a standoff. A 'secret' presentation released last spring describing the danger of water used and released by the tar sand mines.

Harper and Peter Kent have recently said that communities and wildlife downstream are not at great risk to the pollutants though study says it is.

The study suggests that not only is the water being polluted but so is the air. This is causing acid rain across nearby provinces. The mine has also destroyed enormous amounts of native caribou homes.

The tar sands account for more than "100,000 direct and indirect jobs in Canada, and will contribute more than $1.7 trillion to the country's economy over the next 25 years." The numbers of jobs are only expected to grow in the next few years as the mine expands.

This is the main reason our economy is not crashing right now. The battle between the ecomony and the environment is playing out in this senerio as it is with most of Canada's problems.