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Done!
2010 Jul 25, 2:58pm
Then there's this...
Senate ditches global warming
http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/22/news/economy/cap_and_trade/index.htm
elliemae
2010 Jul 25, 3:01pm
That certainly sucks. Unless it's in your face, it's not important I guess.
jljoshlee3
2010 Jul 25, 3:07pm
there is nothing really up there but millions of acres of pine trees
elliemae
2010 Jul 25, 3:12pm
there is nothing really up there but millions of acres of pine trees
...plus the animals that inhabit the woods, and the plant life... an entire ecosystem that helps to filter groundwater, adds oxygen to the enviroment...
Alberta tar sands have probably the worldest largest reserve of oil by up to several times larger than the entiremiddle east. It's very difficult to calculate because it's not a typical oil well, and most geologists and people who work with oil are used to estimating oil from those sources. It's a HUGE amount of possible oil.
The US provides roughly 40% of it's oil, canada was around 18%, mexico/venezula like 15% each, with saudi arabia like 12% with the other couple from other places like nigeria, iran, iraq, etc.
There isn't all that much up there in the tar sands if memory serves me correctly, it's mostly flat lands. In fact Alberta is just praire lands, and until you get into the rockies it's just FLAT.
What is horrific is the fact that the energy needed to get one barrel of oil output, is something horrendous. They need to heat that tar up to extract the oil. They do that by burning natural gas! They burn a perfectly clean burning fuel to extract oil! argh. That is why heating prices on the east coast have been going up, even though there have been huge natural gas deposits found! The tar sands are consuming it all! That is the real travesty here!
Making a mess of flat lands sucks, but it's possible to clean it up. Making a mess of beaches, and the ocean is impossible to clean up.
If you've never seen the tar sands in action, I would recommend getting a good documentary on it. The equipment they use is so massive in scale that it's almost unreal that it moves!
Ceffer
2025 Apr 30, 11:59am
Alberta is sputtering mad and already has motions to secede. Whether they join USA or not or have some joint legal collaborations is the question.
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I have just heard of a southern California environmentalist group that has apparently taken out billboards in the U.S. urging americans to boycot Alberta Canada tourism wise on the basis that our oil sands mining is a catasrophe comparable to the BP spill. Now, have any of you seen these ads yet, or billboards, and if you did what would you think? It plays very indignant like here in the Alberta media like how dare they, they should look after their own disgrace in the gulf, how we have 7 percent unempolyment, alot better than Cali`s 13, and how Canada is a friendly, secure energy partner, much better do do business with that the middle east, south america, etc. So thoughts, thoughts on Canada US relations in general, the oil sands(sometimes refered to as the tar sands), the North american culture of big powerful cars and trucks, future energy policy, and the like. Full disclosure, I was born in upstate New York, but grew up in Alberta, and I`m fond of both.
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