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Daniel Grossman

Alberta Tar Sands Pollution Suspected In Rare Cancer Cases

As President Obama decides whether to veto the Keystone XL pipeline, evidence of disease in people and fish is found at its proposed source.

Daniel Grossman
February 19th, 2015
By Daniel Grossman
February 19th, 2015
Mining trucks carry loads of oil laden sand after being loaded by huge shovels at the Albian Sands oils sands project in Ft. McMurray, Alberta, Canada. (AP/Jeff McIntosh)

FORT CHIPEWYAN, Canada — In 2006, Canadian doctor John O’Connor made a startling realization. Specialists had diagnosed three of his patients in the northern Alberta village of Fort Chipewyan with cholangiocarcinoma — a deadly cancer of the bile duct. The same cancer had killed his own father years earlier in Ireland. Only about one in 100,000

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