Response to Timoney critique of Royal Society of Canada expert panel on oil sands

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4257-4258

  Hrudey, Steve E ^a   Naeth, M Anne ^a   Therrien, René ^b   Van Der Kraak, Glen ^c   Gosselin, Pierre ^d   Plourde, André ^e   Xu, Zhenghe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^e CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; METAL; RIVER WATER; TRACE METAL;

CANADA; CARBON FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LETTER; NEOPLASM; OIL INDUSTRY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH; HYDROCARBONS; INDUSTRY;

EID: 84859871099     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300858k     Document Type: Letter

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