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A long walk – Tar sands mining, up front and grotesque
November 6, 2014 /
Heartbreaking, dehumanizing, toxic. These aren’t the words most people would pick to describe the boreal forest of Canada. But in the far reaches of northern Alberta, this description seems accurate to me. This lush forest of larch, aspen and spruce–a place where wood bison used to roam–has degenerated to ravaged Mordor, the hellish land described in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.
By James Blakely
Full Story: http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/a-long-walk/Content?oid=2099452
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