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  • noun Plural form of tarsand.

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Examples

  • And I believe a fair bit of "our" oil and tarsands is on or near "their" land.

    Archive 2005-06-05 Candace 2005

  • 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

  • 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

  • "We want to get to that the tarsands are a climate crime."

    canada.com Top Stories 2009

  • "We want to get to that the tarsands are a climate crime."

    canada.com Top Stories 2009

  • "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.

    canada.com Top Stories 2009

  • Note he uses the yuckier "tarsands" handle to the cleaner sounding "oilsands" tag.

    Edmonton Sun 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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