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September 11, 2013

Neil Young: Tar Sands Site "Looks Like Hiroshima" 
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The legendary singer Neil Young has spoken out against the extraction of
tar sands oil in Canada and its export to the United States through the
proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Speaking to a National Farmers Union
rally on Capitol Hill, Young described his recent visit to a tar sands
community in Alberta, Canada.

Neil Young: "The fact is, Fort Mc Murray looks like Hiroshima. Fort Mc
Murray is a wasteland. The Indians up there and the native peoples are
dying. The fuels all over — there's fumes everywhere. You can
smell it when you get to town. The closest place to Fort Mc Murray that
is doing the tar sands work is 25 or 30 miles out of town, and you can
taste it when you get to Fort Mc Murray. People are sick. People are
dying of cancer because of this."

President Obama is expected to decide on the Keystone XL pipeline within
the next several months. In a bid to win Obama's approval, Canadian
Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently offered to work on a joint plan
to reduce carbon emissions if the Keystone is built.

 

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