The Alberta oil sands (often called tar sands) is the biggest industrial project on Earth. The tar sands lie beneath approximately 140, 000 square kilometers of Northern Alberta. Roughly 1.8 billion liters of tailings (a dam system to settle left overs after processing) is dumped into a pond every day. Each day 11 million liters leaks into the ecosystem, mainly the Athabasca River. Canada's oil sands are increasing rapidly, and by 2022 it is expected to be 3.8 billion liters dumped per day. The Alberta tar sands are the third largest oil reserve in the word, after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Though the tar sands produces oil, money, and many jobs, there are many problems that should not be ignored. The extreme physical, human, and economic issues coming along with the oil extraction are ignored by the government. For the government won't make any actions to harm to industry in any way.