FAQ:

    The extremely oversized "megaloads" that ship equipment to Alberta can measure 30 feet high and weigh 650,000 pounds

    The tar sands stretch across 54,132 square miles in Alberta, Canada and produce 1.5  million barrels per day

    Approximately two tons of tar sand is needed to produce one barrel of oil

    The crude oil produced from the tar sands contains eleven times more sulfur and nickel, six times more  nitrogen, and five times more lead than  conventional crude oil: compounds that are extremely harmful to humans, animals, and the environment

    600 million cubic feet of Natural gas is used every day – that’s enough to heat more than three million Canadian homes.

    Each year, tar sands mining and refinery operations consume twice the amount of water used by the city of Calgary. This water then ends up in toxic pools which are sometimes large enough to see from space

    By 2020, oil production in the tar sands will release over 40 million tons of CO2 emissions annually; twice the amount produced by all vehicles in Canada