Tar Sands and Unconventional Fossil Fuels In a previous post «Silence Is Deadly» I wrote, «The environmental impacts of tar sands development include: irreversible
effects on biodiversity and the natural environment, reduced water quality, destruction of fragile pristine Boreal forest and associated wetlands, aquatic and watershed mismanagement, habitat fragmentation, habitat loss, disruption to life cycles of endemic wildlife particularly bird and caribou migration, fish deformities and negative impacts
on the
human health in
downstream communities.»