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Archive Home > 2010 > May > 19 > Canada's oil sands: Are they any safer?

Canada's oil sands: Are they any safer?

U.S. reliance grows despite high risks

By Clifford Krauss and Elisabeth Rosenthal / The Bulletin
May 19, 2010

CONKLIN, Alberta — Beneath the subarctic forests of western Canada, deep under the peat bogs and herds of wild caribou, lies the tarry rock that is one of America's top sources of imported oil.

There is no chance of a rig blowout here, or a deepwater oil spill like the one from the BP well that....

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