Bill Nye Depressed by Tar Sands’ ‘Extraordinary Exploitation’ of Environment

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| September 3, 2015

Bill Nye recently took a trip north to the Alberta tar sands while filming his new science documentary and he did not mince words about the state of Canada’s crude oil reservoir.

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“From an environmental point of view locally, it’s astonishing and overwhelming,” he said.

After taking an aerial tour, Nye added that the sight of the oil sands was “depressive.”

The Alberta tar sands is one of the largest bitumen (extremely heavy crude oil) reserves in the world, as well as one of the largest source sites of carbon pollution on the planet. (In case you didn’t know, the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would transport this toxic muck right through the U.S., from Alberta to refineries in Texas.)

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