Sands In Avatar

The Keystone XL is a controversial oil pipeline extension that would travel from Alberta, Canada, to the United States Gulf Coast. The Keystone XL should not be built because of the damage it would cause to the environment. The oil would be found within tar sands that contain bitumen. The process of extracting the crude oil uses a lot of energy and causes a large amount of greenhouse gases. Many citizens, in Canada and the United States, are outraged because it can be detrimental to the surrounding land and wildlife. TransCanada, the company building the oil pipeline, has to receive permission from the United States government to begin construction. If the United States does not have the pipeline built and chooses to not use Canada’s oil, then TransCanada will have the pipeline built elsewhere and exported to other countries. There has been a divide between those in favor of the Keystone XL and those who are not. The Keystone XL would be able to provide the United States with a reliable source of oil, but it would also take the risk of faults in the oil pipeline and ruining parts of America’s resourceful soil. The Keystone XL will cause a negative effect on the environment and damage resourceful land; therefore, the oil pipeline should not be constructed.

The Athabasca Delta is a breeding ground for species of birds, which was destroyed to clear the land for oil development. These development practices are a leading factor towards increases in pollution. A scientific panel stated on Tuesday that pollution must be corrected, as there are major debates against the oil sands development. Proponents argue that business through the Oil Sands has made Canada a major player in foreign supplement. Unemployment rates have decreased across Canada and companies generate huge profits. The Alberta Oil Sands provide Canada with a secure source of energy. Throughout the world, Canadian oil reserves are the second largest in the world. Oil mining operations in Canada also help create more trading partnerships with different countries. This is a great way Canada can strengthen relationships and ties with various nation-states. The Oil Sands is a stabilizing force for Canada’s economy, yet it has a tremendous effect on the environment. Corporations are held responsible for their actions, and environmental protection should be their main concern. The procedures that the Oil Sands has taken are not effective, to an extent, where the pace of investment and development in the oil sands

O Canada! Our home of the Tar sands! True greedy love in thy government’s command. With sinking hearts we’d see it rise, the pipeline though no trees! It’s far and wide, O Keystone Pipeline, we are no match for thee. Our environment’s no longer free! O Keystone Pipeline you’ll be the death of me! This shocking parody of the Canadian national anthem, “O Canada”, provides a negative but factual insight of the disastrous effects that the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline would have on all parties involved. Tar sands oil is the dirtiest type of oil on the planet and if the Keystone XL Pipeline continues to be constructed like organizations such as TransCanada plan, not only will the environment suffer, but the people who are being

Avatar vs. Oil Sands Alberta has the fourth largest oil sands in the world, but is also home to 15% of the Indigenous population in Canada. From the film, Avatar, directed by James Cameron, The Na’Vi and the First Nations of Canada, are more similar than different in their responses to resource extraction. Both the Na’Vi and the First Nations of Canada lose their homes due to extraction, conflicts arise, and the impact on their ways of life is similar. To conclude, their responses are similar, with some key differences. Based on the affect resource extraction has on the Indigenous people and their communities, the Na’Vi loss of their homes is very similar.

This essay discusses the many similarities and differences between Avatar and Alberta oil sands. We can explore this through social sustainability, meaning that development should increase people's control over their own lives, cultural sustainability, a development that takes into account the values and beliefs affected by it, and ecological sustainability, the development that considers the maintenance of environmental resources, biological diversity, and ecological process.

The similarities between the Alberta’s oil industry and the Planet Pandora is that they both relied on their resources and they both gave the people that lived there, the energy to have a better life. The Planet Pandora gave the Na’vi people the natural resources to survive and make their lives much easier. Without the energy that the plants and the animals got, the Na’vi people wouldn’t have been alive and their planet might not have been green and full of natural resources. The Alberta’s oil industry provides the people that live in Alberta with more resources. The oil that comes from the industries provides the people with more products such as clothing, medical, electronics, and basic needs. Without oil, Canadian lives would have been really

There are many different factors contributing to global warming. The Alberta oil sands are only one of them, but they're one of the largest sources of harmful air pollutants in Canada. The oil sands are polluting our air and water, clear cutting the Northern boreal forest and affecting the First Nation tribes living around the sites. Canada should no longer be funding the Alberta oil sands because of the negative impact it has on the environment and people near them.

Dr. Lorne Taylor (2012, p. 3), the chair of the Alberta Water Research Institute, states, “Organizations like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club are convincing Canadians and the world that Alberta’s oil sands are a scourge on the environment”. Environmental groups and the media are unfortunately shedding a poor light on the development of the oil sands in northern Alberta. Bob Weinhold (2011, pg. 119), a veteran environmental journalist, states “the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) panel found no evidence that people are currently being harmed by oil sands activity”. Both the environmentalist side and the oil sands producer’s side must be evaluated with an objective mind as each contains truths as well as embellishments. Taylor (2009, pg. 2) argues that a major misconception is “the province, people and industry of Alberta

Today corporate profitability outweighs any environmental consequences and certainly takes precedence over implications to future generations. Canadas situation can be accurately surmised in a quote from Alanis Obomsawin, an Abenaki from the Odanak reserve, located northeast of Montreal and is quoted as saying:

There are many similarities between the Na'vi and First Nations approaches to environmental degradation and habitat destruction. Although the government and humans are oppressing them, both the Na'vi and First Nations have concerns about the environment. The first nations blamed the government and big oil cooperation for releasing dangerous chemicals into the environment, while the Na'vi blamed human attempts to obtain unobtanium and destroying their nature. With an annual revenue of roughly $110 billion, oil is the government's primary source of income. Selling unobtanium, which goes for 20 million dollars for unrefined and 40 million dollars for refined, is the main source of income for the Pandora humans.

In Avatar, the humans have cleared out a lot of land to make unobtanium mining locations. As for the First Nation’s, they continue to get mines opening along their homes and more and more of the land is being used for the oil sands. Moreover, extracting bitumen takes a lot of energy, around 30% of the oil produced is used for extraction. Natives say that “we are the land, when we destroy it, it is not only committing ecocide, but also genocide. In addition to the environmental degradation, their sources are also being destroyed or polluted because of the extraction.

According to the United Nations, the world population was estimated to have reached 7.6 billion as of October, 2017 and it will continue to increase to 11.2 billion by the year 2100. The rapid increase in population requires more food, more lands and other demands. Because of the higher demands, some companies have been exploiting natural resources to serve people’s needs and create profits as well. With the current population pressure and overexploitation of natural resources, a question has been raised: “What if natural resources run out?”. In 2009, Avatar, a science fiction film directed by James Cameron, which tells us a story about an exploration of a group of people on Pandora to look for new natural resources; because of their greed, the indigenous people and nature on Pandora suffered many casualties, damages.

The American dream- the thought that no matter background, enormous amounts of wealth can be achieved. In the fossil fuel industry, the ways of obtaining this desired wealth is often inhumane. Companies often turn their back on the environment, while at the same time harming other people who rely on the land. As Cree Indian Prophecy mentions, "Only when the last tree has died and the river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught only then will we realize we cannot eat money" ("The Truth About Factory Farming"). Man has neglected nature and others who rely on nature to make a fortune, and the ramifications are becoming evident. Our oceans are being polluted, and people have even lost their property, all for pointless greed.

The oil production in Canada has several significant issues that depict the destruction nature of the industry. These issues can be categorized as environmental, political, economic, and social. The environmental issues lead the pack; in that the environmental destruction associated with the industry is extensive. The environmental problems are climatic, land, water and air related (Best & Hoberg, 2015). Under climatic effect, studies indicate that the development of the tar sides has resulted to three times more greenhouse gases (GHGs) than in production of conventional oil. These environmental issues are caused by the composition of the tar sands. Unlike the convention oil, tar sands are a mixture of bitumen and sand. The process of separating the two results triples GHGs emissions when compared to conventional oil production (Koring, 2013).

The other adverse effect of the Canadian oil sands is that pipelines and massive processes of refining oil sands in Canada are a source of pollution that pose a great threat to air, water, and land as well as human health. Additionally, the use of its products like natural gas that is used to run medium-sized turbines that produce electricity releases greenhouse gases. These emissions are mostly produced when steam is injected to reduce the viscosity of the crude and during refining. These further increases to the global warming effect that is already out of hand and it also negates the gains made by society by exposing them to the adverse negative