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Kathy Castor: This is dirty stuff. Do we have the technology to address these issues? It is not clear at this point that we should be…

On the recordMarch 19, 2012
This is dirty stuff. Do we have the technology to address these issues? It is not clear at this point that we should be going gangbusters, full speed ahead, until we really can address the economic and environmental impacts of tar sands.
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Kathy Castor
Democratic · Florida

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Castor questions the environmental impact of tar sands and the readiness of technology to address it.

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