Sentences with phrase «muskeg of»
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Even as the agreement was being hashed out, however, attention was already turning to a burst pipeline at Nexen's Long Lake oil sands site that spilled 31,000 barrels of bitumen, sand and salty water into the surrounding muskeg.
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A hike in the muskeg habitat reveals an amazing array of unique flora including carnivorous plants.
of boreal forest and muskeg swamps, and polluted billions of gallons of water.
In the once boggy wetlands (muskeg) of western Alaska, ungulate species are being introduced to forage on grasses and sedges, because such vegetation is now prevalent there and the ground is now firm enough to support the weight of browsers.
In June 2013, a pipeline released 15.4 million liters of oil and toxic produced water into the muskeg, contaminating a 42 - hectare (approximately 104 - acre) span of boreal forest.