Image credit: Wikimedia Commons It’s not a huge surprise that the oil sands—which have been described as the ” most destructive project on earth ” and were likened to Mordor by a United Nations water advisor—are leaking toxins into nearby streams. Still, the Regional Aquatic Monitoring Program

(RAMP), the body responsible for monitoring water pollution from the project, has not found what it considers abnormal levels of pollutants downstream from mi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Researchers Link Pollution to Oil Sands, Monitoring Body Disagrees