Andrew Nikiforuk has written an article in the Hakai magazine which supports one of our arguments in the work we did as intervenors in the National Energy Board Hearings on the Kinder Morgan/Trans Mountain Extension Pipeline project. This article profiles how we are being duped by oil companies and governments into believing that oil spills can be cleaned up and that oiled birds and mammals can be rehabilitated.

“And that’s where the state of marine oil spill response sits today: it creates little more than an illusion of a cleanup. Scientists — outside the oil industry — call it “prime-time theatre” or “response theatre.””

Why Do We Pretend to Clean Up Ocean Oil Spills?

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-long/oil-spill-cleanup-illusion

Also see:

Oil Sands Dilbit Causes Developmental Problems in Fish