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And we're replacing that with the largest industrial project in the history of the world,
將它轉(zhuǎn)變成史上最大的工業(yè)項(xiàng)目，
which is producing the most high-carbon greenhouse gas emitting oil in the world.
生產(chǎn)溫室氣體排放量最大的高碳油類。
And we're doing this on the second largest oil reserves on the planet.
這就是我們?cè)谑郎系诙笫吞N(yùn)藏地所做的事。
This is one of the reasons why Canada,
這就是為何加拿大，
originally a climate change hero-we were one of the first signatories of the Kyoto Accord.
它原本是環(huán)保英雄-我們是第一批簽署京都議定書的國家之一。
Now we're the country that has full-time lobbyists in the European Union and Washington, D.C.
現(xiàn)在我國派駐全職說客在歐盟及華盛頓特區(qū)。
threatening trade wars when these countries talk about wanting to bring in positive legislation to limit the import of high-carbon fuels,
以貿(mào)易戰(zhàn)爭為要挾，當(dāng)這些國家希望立法限制高碳燃料進(jìn)口，
of greenhouse gas emissions, anything like this,
討論溫室氣體排放等相關(guān)議題時(shí)，
at international conferences,
在國際會(huì)議中，
whether they're in Copenhagen or Cancun,
無論在哥本哈根或坎昆，
international conferences on climate change,
在討論氣候變遷議題的國際會(huì)議中，
we're the country that gets the dinosaur award every single day as being the biggest obstacle to progress on this issue.
我們是榮獲“化石獎(jiǎng)”（頒給破壞國際氣候變化談判的國家）的國家成為談判進(jìn)展的最大阻礙。
Just 70 miles downstream is the world's largest freshwater delta,
河流下游70英哩處是世上最大的淡水三角洲，
the Peace-Athabasca Delta,
和平－阿薩帕斯卡爾三角洲，
the only one at the juncture of all four migratory flyways.
它是四條候鳥遷徙路線唯一交會(huì)點(diǎn)。
This is a globally significant wetland,
這是對(duì)全球來說具有重要意義的濕地，
perhaps the greatest on the planet.
或許是世上最大的濕地。
Incredible habitat for half the bird species you find in North America, migrating here.
它是北美半數(shù)遷往此處的鳥類物種棲息地。
And also the last refuge for the largest herd of wild bison,
也是世上最大野牛群最后的避難所，
and also, of course, critical habitat for another whole range of other species.
此外，當(dāng)然也是許多其他物種的重要棲息地。
But it too is being threatened by the massive amount of water being drawn from the Athabasca,
但它也深受來自阿薩帕斯卡爾河的大量水流威脅，
which feeds these wetlands,
它灌溉這片濕地，
and also the incredible toxic burden of the largest toxic unlined impoundments on the planet,
同時(shí)帶來大量毒性物質(zhì)來自世上最大的露天毒性蓄水池，
which are leaching in to the food chain for all the species downstream.
進(jìn)入下游所有物種的食品鏈中。
