Review of 9,000 Studies Finds We Know Squat About Bitumen Spills in Ocean Environments

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By Judith LavoieDec 9, 2016, 3:43 pm139 pts
Nobody knows how a spill of diluted bitumen would affect marine life or whether a bitumen spill in salt water could be adequately cleaned up, because basic research is lacking, says a new study. The peer-reviewed paper, which will be published later this month in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the…

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