I've been watching the oil-sands development in Alberta for years, always intrigued by the tight-wire act of extracting fossil fuels from an unimaginable source, while still trying to claim the process is environmentally acceptable.  It is, I have now come to conclude for myself, NOT.

   Below is a rather poor quality picture of a two-mouthed fish, a 2.5 kg. Goldeye, caught last week in Lake Athabasca, downstream from the oil-sands project.  

    I can't help draw the comparison between this, and one of my favorite Simpson's episodes.... "two cars in every garage and three eyes on every fish".  Bart and Lisa discover a three-eyed fish, eventually named 'blinky' (also shown), downstream from the Springfield nuclear plant.

      So, the question remains.  Is the two-mouthed fish, which I'll call 'lippy', simply a rare but entirely possible and natural genetic mutation, or, are the tar-sands threatening the lives of not only animals, but humans downstream.  Aboriginals in Alberta are already claiming higher rates of cancer and other health problems.  Other studies claim to show no ill-effects on health or the environment from the project.  BULL !!

    This is enough for me to say that the oil-sands project, worth tens of billions of dollars to Alberta and the big oil companies, comes at too high a price to be a worthwhile intrusion of the earth's surface.

       What do you think. ????