To find the two-year long parliamentary study Report or the article I read by the Tyee.
...the framework for protecting the river is based on "bureaucratic compromise" as opposed to rigorous science-based policy; that there is inadequate baseline data and studies on the project's impact on groundwater; that the U.S. government regulates naphthenic acids, a key tar sands pollutant....
....naphthenic acids as a water pollutant, but that Canada has no regulations for the industry's most harmful byproduct....
...the tar sands mining industry, which produces 1.3 million barrels of bitumen a day, now uses 12 barrels of freshwater to produce one barrel of the asphalt-like heavy crude....
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