Quest for oil leaves trail of damage across the globe

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Quest for oil leaves trail of damage across the globe

By Tom Knudson | McClatchy Newspapers


Like many of her neighbors, Celina Harpe is angry about the oil pollution at her doorstep. No longer can she eat the silvery fish that dart along the shore near her home. Even the wind that hurries over the water reeks of oil waste.

"I get so mad," she said. "I feel very sad."

Harpe, 70, isn't a casualty of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. She lives in a remote corner of Alberta, Canada, where another oil field that's vital to the United States is damaging one of the world's most important ecosystems: Canada's northern forest.

Across the globe, people such as Harpe in oil-producing regions are watching the catastrophe in the Gulf with a mixture of horror, hope and resignation. To some, the black tide is a global event that finally may awaken the world to the real cost of oil.

"This is a call to attention for all humanity," said Pablo Fajardo, a lawyer in Ecuador who's suing Chevron over oil pollution in the Amazon on behalf of 30,000 plaintiffs.

"Oil has a price," he added, "but water, life and a clean environment are worth much more."

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[dipsydoodle]

1. Helps put thing in perspective

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2. We have drilled all of the "easy" oil

Now we are going after the heavy sour (high C6H6 and sulfur content) oil, and the deep oil, and the oil in the places where they hate us. And we would rather put corn products into causing obesity and diabetes (High Fructose Corn Sugar, i.e., diabetes in an 8 ounce can) then replacing imported oil (cause some Shell Oil shill says corn ethanol is "Bad")