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Our "safe" Canadian oil imports are much more dangerous than we'd like to believe
Ellen Cantarow
April 7, 2011
http://www.salon.com/news/env/energy/index.html?story=/news/feature/2011/04/07/foreign_energy_sources_japan_mexico_canada
For years, "not in my backyard" has been the battle cry of residents in Cape Cod who stand opposed to an offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The giant turbines will forever mar the beauty of the landscape, they say.
Energy is ugly. Some forms more so than others, as nuclear near-meltdowns in Japan, the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and deaths in a West Virginia Coal Mine explosion have driven home in the last year. Energy kills plants, plankton, and people. It imperils the environment, poisons the oceans, and is threatening to turn part of Japan, one of the most advanced nations on the planet, into a contaminated zone for decades to come.