Oil sands
Oil sands underlie approximately 140,000 square kilometers of Alberta – an area about the size of Florida. Oil sands leases cover about 20% of the province’s land area. In 46 years of development, only 0.15% of the environment disturbed is certified as "reclaimed." There is no way to return the boreal forest to its natural state. Over 30 million birds will be lost over the next 20 years due to tar sands development.