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Alberta's Oil Sands Sucking Up Volumes of Water

Alberta's Oil Sands Sucking Up Volumes of Water

The architects behind the Alberta oil sands project – the largest and dirtiest energy venture on Earth -- are in for a crude awakening. And fast. That’s because their prized $150 billion "black gold" enterprise is gulping up an unsustainable amount of water.

A whole river in fact.

The stats will surprise, courtesy of an excellent exposé in the Globe and Mail. But here’s the skinny.