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We’re also on track to destroy the boreal forests of Western Canada.  Canada is now our largest source of foreign oil, supplying nearly twice as much as Saudi Arabia.  And most of it comes from scraping the forest off tar sand deposits, boiling them down to extract the oil, and leaving huge swaths of toxic sludge behind.  Tar sands and coal are the dirtiest sources of power on the planet, with roughly twice the carbon output of natural gas. 

[photo © Oil Change International (www.priceofoil.org)]