<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2010/09/17/AthabascaDeformedFish/">http://thetyee.ca/News/2010/09/17/AthabascaDeformedFish/</a><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; float: right; width: 610px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 0; "><img width="320" alt="Deformed Athabasca fish" style="vertical-align: middle; " id="cac72d78-a171-470b-b52e-3f5285dd2d78" height="214" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:A43E165B-66D8-438C-ACEB-0F7F6D8D31DF"></div><div class="content" style="clear: both; background-image: url(http://thetyee.ca/ui/img/hr_ht.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-left: 5px; position: static; z-index: auto; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><div class="photo-caption" style="clear: both; float: right; background-image: url(http://thetyee.ca/ui/img/hr_ht_light195.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; width: 195px; background-position: 100% 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 5px; ">Whitefish TOP: from the Athabasca Delta, collected by Robert Grandjambe Jr., May 2010; BOTTOM: from Lake Athabasca, collected by Ray Ladouceur, Dec. 2009. Photo credit: John Ulan, EPIC Photography.</p></div><div class="block block-article_related" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 15px; float: right; width: 195px; padding-left: 15px; "><div class="block-inner"><h2 class="title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 33px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: url(http://thetyee.ca/ui/img/bg_block-articlerelated_top.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><img width="156" height="8" alt="Related" style="vertical-align: middle; " id="98be2fc4-f41a-4662-9607-89e6b27e03ce" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:8114E048-F5EB-41D4-B450-B22647953926"></h2><div class="content" style="clear: both; background-image: url(http://thetyee.ca/ui/img/bg_block-articlerelated_btm.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-left: 5px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.5em; padding-left: 0px; "><li style="background-image: url(http://thetyee.ca/ui/img/li_raquo_gray.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.4em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 12px; background-position: 0% 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><a href="http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/07/15/TarSandsReport/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">What Those Who Killed the Tar Sands Report Don't Want You to Know</a></h3><div style="margin-top: 0.1em; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Why did a parliamentary committee suddenly destroy drafts of a final report on tar sands pollution? Here's what they knew.</div></li><li style="background-image: url(http://thetyee.ca/ui/img/li_raquo_gray.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.4em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 12px; background-position: 0% 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><a href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2010/08/19/LiberalTarSandsReport/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">'Constant Denial': Liberal Report on Tar Sands Is Scathing</a></h3><div style="margin-top: 0.1em; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Grits' dissenting report on two-year parliamentary study calls for sweeping reforms.</div></li><li style="background-image: url(http://thetyee.ca/ui/img/li_raquo_gray.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.4em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 12px; background-position: 0% 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><a href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2010/08/30/TarSandsStudy/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Oil Sands Pollute with Fish-Killing Toxins, New Study Shows</a></h3><div style="margin-top: 0.1em; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Detection of high heavy metals levels in Athabasca River contradicts government claims.</div></li><li style="background-image: url(http://thetyee.ca/ui/img/li_raquo_gray.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.4em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 12px; background-position: 0% 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Read more: <a href="http://thetyee.ca/Topic/Energy/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Energy</a>,<a href="http://thetyee.ca/Topic/Environment/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Environment</a></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="block block-signup_newsletter" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 25px; float: right; width: 195px; padding-left: 15px; "><div class="block-inner"><h2 class="title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: url(http://thetyee.ca/ui/img/bg_block-signupnewsletter_top.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(25, 163, 209); text-align: center; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><img width="165" height="30" alt="Sign Up for the Tyee Newsletter" style="vertical-align: middle; " id="02009747-e7d7-404d-b52d-d12c4592252e" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:7E7599AD-DF91-4329-8748-C137140B680C"></h2><div class="content" style="clear: both; background-image: url(http://thetyee.ca/ui/img/bg_block-signupnewsletter_btm.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(25, 163, 209); padding-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><form action="http://goto.thetyee.ca/bin/listctrl" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="signup-enews" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><input type="text" maxlength="128" name="email" size="9" value="" class="form-text" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0.3em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.3em; padding-left: 0.5em; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 128px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "> <input type="image" src="http://thetyee.cachefly.net/ui/img/form_btn_submit_go_blue.png" name="" value="go" class="form-submit" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-left: 0.3em; "></div></form></div></div></div><p class="first" style="margin-top: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 10px; ">Armed with photos and ice-filled tubs of deformed fish from Lake Athabasca, a broad coalition of aboriginal communities, scientists, fishermen and local politicians <a href="http://athabascafish.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/letter-to-the-prime-minister-of-canada-requesting-a-fish-monitoring-program/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 0); padding-bottom: 1px; ">asked</a> the Canadian government yesterday to fund a comprehensive fish monitoring program on rivers and lakes downstream of the </p></div></span></div></body></html>