This buried story will be the one that ruins all hopes for the Federal Conservatives of getting re-elected.

(From CANADIAN PRESS)

FORT CHIPEWYAN, ALTA. — Information about a mutated fish caught downstream from Alberta’s tarsands region will be sent to a joint government-industry group that monitors the health of rivers and lakes.

The 2.5-kilogram goldeye caught last week in Lake Athabasca has two mouths, one beneath the other.

Two boys pointed out the deformed fish to Stuart Macmillan, Parks Canada’s manager of resource conservation at Wood Buffalo National Park, who studied it before handing it over to the Mikesew First Nation.

"We had just pulled up to the dock and some kids came over and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got a fish over here with two mouths,’ " Macmillan said yesterday.

Aboriginal communities downstream of the tarsands have expressed concerns about how industrial development is affecting the animals that they eat and their drinking water. Elders believe pollution is responsible for high cancer rates and other health problems in the region.