Exxon's threat to salmon

logging.truckThe Columbia and Snake Rivers are slated to be the conveyor belt for one of the world's largest intentional environmental disasters.

An oil company focused on profits and a government failing its duties to people has reared a new threat to wild salmon and local communities. It comes in two parts – development of the Canadian oil sands beneath the boreal forests of northern Alberta, and Exxon's surprise plan to use the Columbia and Snake Rivers, plus Idaho and Montana highways, to ship huge mining machinery to those oil sands.

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