Athabasca River

“Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives of the Alberta Tar Sands” was a Greenpeace film produced by Peter Mettler. The shots came primarily from a helicopter offering an overview of the world's largest industrial energy project. In the beginning of the film, they introduced the term bitumen. Bitumen comes from the extraction of crude oil and needs a lot of water to produce. They also emphasized Canada's tar sands are an oil reserve the size of England. During the film, they mostly compared the differences

powerful source of energy, Enbridge proposed the Northern Gateway pipeline project which was a plan to build twin pipelines from Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitimat, British Columbia for the transportation of natural gas and diluted bitumen from the Athabasca

To what extent does the Athabasca Oil Sands take responsibility in promoting environmental stewardship? The Oil Sands are a mixture of sand, water, clay and bitumen. Bitumen is oil that is too heavy or thick to flow or be pumped without being diluted or heated. Throughout many decades, the environment has become a critical concern, and the responsibility the Oil Sands has taken is preposterous. The GHG (greenhouse gas emissions) emissions that are released into the environment undermines its practices

The Alberta tar sands has always been a hot political issue in Canada, and over the years citizens have not seen any change, except a progression in the development of the also-known Athabasca tar (oil) sands. Before taking a leap and stating my personal side on this issue, I will give an overview on the tar sands. Tar sands are made of clay, sand and crude oil known as bitumen. What the oil corporations are interested in is the oil coming from the tar sands that boosts the economy of the business

chemical in northern Alberta. This results in the destruction of wildlife, polluting air, water, soil, boreal forests, Athabasca River, wetlands on northern Alberta. Rivers are polluted with toxic waste and they are running dry and it has a huge impact on lives of species due to loss of habitat. It is approximated that over 720 billion liters of toxic trailing on the landscape in the Athabasca oil sands area. Social impact: Due to the evolution of this industry there is some social impact on sectors such

4 Aldersbrook Avenue London, ON N9K 4A4 May 12th, 2018 Don Thompson 478 Pasta Road Edmonton, AB Q8I 4P9 Dear Mr. Thompson: I have watched the YouTube video called “The Oil Sands Industry and Canada’s Future”. I have several concerns regarding some of the statements that you and a few others made during the video. I believe that when it comes to oil sands, there are a lot more negatives than positives that come with them. All oil sand companies are supposed to reclaim lands that have been disturbed

Less than a hundred years later, in 1875 the first ever government-sponsored geological study was carried out by John Macoun. Charles Mair, a recording secretary traveling with the David Laird Treaty expedition of 1899, described the future of Athabasca river region as 'substance of great economic value '. In his words "when the hour of development comes, it will, I believe will prove out to be a wonder of North Canada". He even mentioned the boiling process, which was then used to liberate oil from

excavation and sand to make 1 barrel of bitumen, about 2 tons of tar sands are required to produce 1barrel of oil and then 90% of the polluted water are dumped in the world’s largest impoundments of toxic waste which are the tailing pounds along the Athabasca River. If tar sands growth goes unchecked an area the size of Florida will become a wasteland. A single incident, in 2008, 1,600 ducks died after landing in the tailing pounds of syncrude tar sands mine. It is not only destructive to ancestral lands

Introduction The statement ‘Canada oil sands are much more of a blessing rather than a curse’ is not true because the disadvantages of oil sands outweigh the advantages. For this reason, this paper aims at indicating points against the statement. To understand the defects of oil sand exploration in Canada, one has to delve into the explanation of what oil sands are as well as how the entire process of mining and refining and thereafter, determine the disadvantages based on socioeconomic factors,

Enbridge Inc. is a Canadian energy company intending to build two opposite flowing parallel pipelines, transporting crude oil westbound from the rich Athabasca tar sands, and natural gas condensate eastbound from the coast of British Columbia. The purpose of transporting bitumen to the west coast is in order to have an outlet to the Pacific Ocean and subsequently export to the growing Asian oil markets via oil tankers. Alberta’s tar sands are estimated to have 166 billion barrels of proven reserves