Two-Mouthed Fish Near Alberta Tar Sands raises public health alarm

Special to The Canadian

The catching of a mutant fish with two mouths was caught in northern Alberta, near the Canadian province's Athabasca oil sands, is only one of many documented pieces of evidences that supports why the Tar Sands should be shut down.

The fish had been hooked from a dock at Lake Athabasca and handed over to park wardens. Locals residents have been fighting expansion of heavy oil production because of its impact on the environment.

Canada's federal Ministry of Health in June 2008 indicated that it would investigate rising rates of cancer among residents in Fort Chipewyan, which borders the oils sands region and is home to about 1,200 people. Community members said they plan to start legal and public information campaigns in Europe and North America calling for a moratorium on oil sands development, the CBC had documented.

Producing oil from bitumen, a sticky black substance, requires more fresh water and energy than traditional crude oil production. Canada's oil sands region holds the world's second- largest reserves of the fossil fuel, after Saudia Arabia.

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