What people seem not to understand about the tar sands is not the fact that we need the fuel or that it defaces large tracks of land & pollutes the air & the rivers. What is really deplorable is the so called reclamation program. It is the scam where all that is bad about the process is covered up with soil & planted with nice trees followed with the publicity that everything is better than it was. When the fact of the matter is that all those poisons that are hidden deep underground is going to take thousands of years to dissipate & become harmless. We do need the ressource, we do need the economic windfall. What we don't need are the lies that everything is good! That we can trust those companies with our environmental future. The worst thing in all of this is that the media are all on the corporate payroll & do not tell it like it is. What upsets me the most is this criminal misrepresentation that make you the media accomplices of corporate greed & political corruption!