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Keywords
Climate (campaign title)
Elderly
Energy
Forests (campaign title)
Girls
Health
Indoors
KWCI (GPI)
Oil exploration
One person
Pollution
Tar sands
Women
Cancer Patient in Alberta Tar Sands
Cancer patient Emma Michael at her home in Fort Chipewyan, northern Alberta.
She survived an aggressive breast cancer tumor and believes that her cancer was caused by increased levels of pollution to the air and water downstream from the tar sands sites.
Unique identifier:
GP026OW
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
22/07/2009
Locations:
Alberta
,
Canada
,
Fort Chipewyan
,
North America
Credit line:
© Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Tar Sands & Boreal Forest - Alberta (2 of 3)
Buried below the Boreal Forest of northern Alberta is 3rd largest proven reserve of oil known as the tar sands. Deposits of tar sands are spread out over 138 000 km2 of land (an area the size of Florida) and including 4.3 million hectares of the Boreal Forest. Tar sands are solid at room temperature so it requires more energy and water to extract this oil, making them one of the dirtiest oils on the planet.
Related Collections:
Tar Sands Documentation in Canada (All Photographers & Videos)
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