Tar Sands' Next Frontier: Shipments on the Great Lakes

The Great Lakes, drinking water source for over 40 million North Americans, could be the next target on tar sands marketers' bullseye according to a major new report out by the Chicago-based Alliance for the Great Lakes.

The 24-page report, Oil and Water:  Tar Sands Crude Shipping Meets the Great Lakes? unpacks a new looming threat to the Great Lakes in the form of barges transporting tar sands along the Great Lakes to targeted midwestern refinery markets.  As the report suggests, it's a threat made worse by an accompanying "Wild West"-like regulatory framework.

Tar Sands' Next Frontier:  Shipments on the Great Lakes