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  Hi Bob, I had seen some coverage of this oil spill, but it has not been widely reported over here. I am guessing because it did not affect white caucasians and their pension plan, whereas the BP spill did.
  
  It was an awful disaster for all those involved and the clean up still goes on.
  
  The trouble with oil is that all the 'easy to get to' stuff has been used and the oil companies are now using more and more dangerous techniques and going into more and more difficult terrains. Deep water Arctic drilling has NO back up plan in case of disaster - the terrain is too hostile to be able to sort out problems such as seen in the Gulf.
  
  The Alberta tar sands oil exploitation is a phenomenal environmental catastrophe for the people of the area and the wildlife. A huge (larger than the UK) expanse of forest is to be cleared to extract this oil. The extraction method is not easy so generates huge amounts of pollution in doing so. The companies involved spin losts of green-wash, saying that they will put the environment back. What a load of tosh. How can you put back a forest that is 100s of years old? This is the trouble with oil companies, they have huge budgets and can spin all this stuff to make it look like they are environmentally friendly.
  
  And the trouble is, a lot of people believe it!

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