TransCanada Corp.

TransCanada’s Light Pollution of the True Night Sky

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Maine’s Boundary Mountains

Kibby at night from Eustis Ridge, photo by Em Dyer

While TransCanada Corporation likes to claim it is committed to reducing global warming  as its justification for creating environmental havoc in the Boundary Mountains, nothing could be further from the truth. The truth being that TransCanada is intensely increasing the planet’s greenhouse gas levels through its heavy involvement in the Alberta Tar Sands industry, The World’s Most Destructive Project.

TAR SANDS 101

The Alberta tar sands have become an international example of how industry, driven by profit, can impose the most inhumane and destructive conditions upon communities and the environment. The health of indigenous communities in Fort Chipewyan and Fort Mackay (north of the Athabasca tar sands) is being completely ignored in order to continue tar sands production while rates of cancer in these communities rise. Guest workers are being exploited for their labour as a result of not having any opportunity to obtain citizenship in Canada leaving them with the constant threat of deportation. And the tar sands impact on the environment has been well documented: producing 5 times more greenhouse gas emmissions than conventional oil, currently consuming approximately the same amount of gas required to heat 3.2 million homes, using up to 4 barrels of water for every barrel of crude produced and creating enormous toxic lakes from the waste that is produced. These are just some of the environmental and social concerns – there are many more.

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