Toxic Alberta: Tumorous Fish Downstream from Alberta Oil Sands

One whitefish has a golfball-sized tumor bulging from its side. Another is simply missing part of its spine, its tail growing from a stumpy rear end. One has no snout. Another is colored a lurid red instead of a healthy cream. Others are covered with lesions and still others are bent and crooked from deformed vertebrae.

All were taken from Lake Athabasca, downstream from the Alberta Oil Sands ('Tar Sands'). The lake and surrounding watershed is also the source of drinking water for thousands of first nations people living in the area.

Is this what civil society looks like?:

Killam Memorial Professor of Ecology at the University of Alberta David Schindler holds a deformed white fish caught in Lake Athabasca.

 

Two-Jawed mutant fish downstream from Oilsands

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