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From MediaDuz World News Headquarters in Boseman, Montana, this is Cal's We Can Review

with Ryan Cal Calan.

Now, here's Cal.

Weak penis bones or brittle baculum in otters point to excessive contamination around Alberta's

oil sands.

So, you know, check that tap water, fellas.

A recent study performed in part by the Joint Oil Sands Monitoring Project, which is,

quote, the governments of Canada and Alberta working with indigenous peoples and their communities,

stakeholders and environmental agencies to ensure the oil sands region is developed in a responsible way.

Together, they are working to provide comprehensive environmental monitoring data and information

to improve understanding of the long-term cumulative effects of oil sands development.

We don't yet know what long term means, but in the now term, those frisky otters are underperforming.

If you have never heard of oil sands before, think of really thick oil called bitumen,

which is mixed with sand and gravel, sometimes hard rock.

Bitumen is most commonly extracted using drill rigs that treat the bitumen in place in order to make it flow.

This is done either by dilution or heating of the bitumen, injecting steam into the deposit,

which sort of liquefies the bitumen.

The pressure forces it to the surface through a return pipe.

That's a real quick and dirty rundown, which is appropriate because you're dealing with oil and lots of liquid and sometimes it's dirty.

Thousands of gallons of water used in extraction and during this process other minerals are extracted and things leach into the soil,

which is why the joint oil sands monitoring project exists.

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