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The Age of Extreme Oil: "This Used to Be a Forest?"

The region now resembles the Sahara – fine sand left behind by evaporated tailings ponds stretching into a treeless horizon.

May 19, 2011 | The Globe and Mail

"All human technology fails," said Ampush Ayui Chayat, an Achuar delegate from Perú. "Talisman has insisted their new technology will change everything. But if this is how Canadians let oil companies operate in their own land, how can we trust them in ours?"


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