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Down To Earth archive for Jan. 11, 2010

MONDAY, JAN. 11, 2010

Slag on the beach - meeting on the 14th 

Maui it isn't.A beach area on the Upper Columbia River known as the Black Sand Beach because of an industrial byproduct discharged into the Columbia River from a metals smelting facility in Trail B.C. is scheduled to begin being cleaned up in the fall of…

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Another Green Monday

Welcome to the real-life Avatar. Or as we like to call it: Alberta. The cosmic open pit mines up north produce vast quantities of oil from their tar sands. In fact, they’ve made Canada the top foreign supplier to America, and the second-largest storehouse in…

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