The grasping hand of the corporate
world will devastate, communities and the environment, in its endless
quest for profit. No risk is too big, no damage too great, as the
fallout from their plundering and marauding, doesn't infect the
marble halls of the world's stock exchanges, nor their shareholders
bank accounts.
The Alberta tar sands project is one
of the corporate world's most brutal destructions of of pristine
natural environments on the planet. It stretches for mile after mile
of what used to be green mountains and abundant wildlife, but is now
a filthy wasteland of sterile black slush. What is worse, is that to
get at the oil in the tar, the companies use some of the most toxic
substances in existence. This in turn finds its way down streams and
rivers, into the water table.
Lake Athabasca is fed by the Athabasca River, which flows through the project region, and earlier studies have found unsafe levels of arsenic, mercury and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in the lake’s fish, as well as in sediments, water and wildlife.
Among the local population down
river from the project, there has been an increase in cancers, Of
course the usual vomit is emitted by the mouthpieces of the project,
stating that the increase in cancers may be due to better detection
and/or lifestyle. Obvious they can't or wont, see any connection
between toxic water and wildlife, and increase in cancers.
This rape and plunder of the
planet will continue as long as the present system of capitalism
exist. As long as the financial mafia control where the investments
go, and the aim is increase wealth for the shareholders, you and I,
and the environment, will just have to take what we get. It is their
world, or it is our world, there is no middle road, no compromise.
