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- noun Plural form of
tarsand .
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Examples
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And I believe a fair bit of "our" oil and tarsands is on or near "their" land.
Archive 2005-06-05 Candace 2005
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And I believe a fair bit of "our" oil and tarsands is on or near "their" land.
One last kick at the can Candace 2005
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Mat Simon's calls the tarsands "Turning Gold into Lead" and I quite agree with him.
Sound Politics: "Peak Oil" Despair Versus Energy Innovation 2007
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"We want to get to that the tarsands are a climate crime."
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"We want to get to that the tarsands are a climate crime."
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"The tarsands are the roadblock to Canada signing onto a meaningful target," said Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, a climate-change activist and member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta.
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Note he uses the yuckier "tarsands" handle to the cleaner sounding "oilsands" tag.
Edmonton Sun 2010
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Canada's largest newspaper, The Toronto Star, responded to Kent's appointment this week with its own less sympathetic editorial, noting that Canada's "international reputation as a do-gooder" has taken a pounding lately because of Harper's slowness to act on carbon emissions and especially, "on the question of the Alberta tarsands."
Bill Mann: 'Scud Stud's' Brother Is Canada's New Environment Minister Bill Mann 2011
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Canada's largest newspaper, The Toronto Star, responded to Kent's appointment this week with its own less sympathetic editorial, noting that Canada's "international reputation as a do-gooder" has taken a pounding lately because of Harper's slowness to act on carbon emissions and especially, "on the question of the Alberta tarsands."
Bill Mann: 'Scud Stud's' Brother Is Canada's New Environment Minister Bill Mann 2011
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But there's still the sticky matter of those tarsands, called "oilsands" by Alberta's image-conscious government and big oil companies.
Bill Mann: 'Scud Stud's' Brother Is Canada's New Environment Minister Bill Mann 2011
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