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Environmental health risks of Alberta oil sands likely underestimated: study

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Environmental health risks of Alberta oil sands likely underestimated: study

John Cotter

EDMONTON — The Canadian Press
Feb. 03 2014

A new study suggests the environmental health risks of oilsands operations in Alberta’s Athabasca region have probably been underestimated.

Researchers say emissions of potentially hazardous air pollution that were used in environmental reviews done before approving some projects did not include evaporation from tailings ponds or other sources, such as dust from mining sites.

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