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The tailings ponds are the largest toxic impoundments on the planet.
那些殘渣池是世上最大的毒性蓄水池
Oil sands-r rather I should say tar sands-oil sands is a P.R.-created term，
油砂－或者我該稱它為瀝青砂－油砂是公關部門創造的詞匯，
so that the oil companies wouldn't be trying to promote something that sounds like a sticky tar-like substance that's the world's dirtiest oil.
使石油公司不至于像是推廣某種彷佛瀝青般黏稠的物質或世上最臟的油。
So they decided to call it oil sands.
因此他們決定稱它為油砂。
The tar sands consume more water than any other oil process,
瀝青砂的生產過程比其他油類消耗更多水，
three to five barrels of water are taken, polluted and then returned into tailings ponds,
生產一桶原油 需使用三至五桶水，受污染的水進入殘渣池，
the largest toxic impoundments on the planet.
成為世上最大的毒性蓄水池。
SemCrude, just one of the licensees, SemCrude in just one of their tailings ponds,
只是其中一家取得執照的公司，在他們擁有的其中一個殘渣池中，
dumps 250,000 tons of this toxic gunk every single day.
每日倒入25萬噸毒性黏稠物。
That's creating the largest toxic impoundments in the history of the planet.
創造出有史以來最大的毒性蓄水池。
So far, this is enough toxin to cover the face of Lake Eerie a foot deep.
目前為止，其中的毒性物質足以覆蓋伊利湖面一呎深。
And the tailings ponds range in size up to 9,000 acres.
殘渣池的面積可達9000英畝。
That's two-thirds the size of the entire island of Manhattan.
相當于三分之二個曼哈頓島。
That's like from Wall Street at the southern edge of Manhattan up to maybe 120th Street.
大約從曼哈頓南端的華爾街到第120街。
So this is an absolutely-this is one of the larger tailings ponds.
因此這確實是－這是其中較大的殘渣池之一.
This might be, what? I don't know, half the size of Manhattan.
大約相當于－我不確定－半個曼哈頓島.
And you can see in the context,
你可由之前的敘述得知,
it's just a relatively small section of one of 10 mining complexes and another 40 to 50 on stream to be approved soon.
這只是十個礦場中某個礦場的一小部分，其他四、五十個礦場很快就會獲得批準.
And of course, these tailings ponds-well, you can't see many ponds from outer space and you can see these, so maybe we should stop calling them ponds,
當然，這些殘渣池－確實，你無法從外太空看見許多殘渣池,但你可以看見這些因此或許我們不該稱它為池,
these massive toxic wastelands are built unlined and on the banks of the Athabasca River.
這些大型毒性廢料池并未裝設防護措施散布于阿薩帕斯卡爾河沿岸.
