The desperate Saudis finally enlisted the help of French commandos led by tough - as - nails Captain Paul Barril, who prepared the final assault and
supplied poison gas that knocked out the insurgents.
Sanders said the pipeline could
poison water
supplies and create more reliance on natural
gas when the state should be focused on renewable energy
supplies.
In fact, he says, the oil sands, combined with Alberta's growing mania for extracting natural
gas from coal seams by injecting toxic chemicals into the ground — thereby
poisoning some of the dwindling
supply of drinking water — threaten to create a parched, deforested, polluted wasteland.