Tar Sands Time Out is the Sierra Club's page on the plan to build a pipeline through Texas to carry tar sands-extracted oil from Canada's Alberta Boreal forest. This pipeline was part of the Trans-Texas Corridor (which is now "dead," ), which was part of the NAFTA Superhighway (which "doesn't exist,") which will apparently get built in one incarnation or another.
Tar Sands oil extraction is a dirty, destructive, energy-inefficient process, which will produce a short-lived supply of oil at great expense to one of the last truly wild forests in the world.
Read a fact sheet about the environmental impacts of tar sands development here.
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