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Alberta's oilsands pump out more pollutants than industry reports, scientists find (www.cbc.ca)
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Alberta's oilsands operations produce far more potentially harmful air pollutants than officially recorded โ€” putting the daily output on par with those from gridlocked megacities like Los Angeles, new research suggests.

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[-] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 37 points 10 months ago

The researchers from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Yale University found levels that were between 20 and 64 times higher than those reported by industry, depending on the oilsands facility.

That's not a small difference

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