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Well that's a straight up loaded question right there... the OIL sands (tar sands is a name designed specifically by people looking to antagonize people) will stop being developed when they are not economically viable to develop. Which means when people stop demanding so much oil.In between the all Canadian shoulder pats, when do you predict to stop extracting tar sands?
Well that's a straight up loaded question right there... the OIL sands (tar sands is a name designed specifically by people looking to antagonize people) will stop being developed when they are not economically viable to develop. Which means when people stop demanding so much oil.
As long as the world wants oil, oil will be produced. For the remainder of my lifetime I expect that the oilsands will continue to be developed.
Of course it should also be noted that this is a good thing, oil from the oilsands in Alberta is developed in a much safer way, and with much stricter environmental monitoring than most of the world's oil which is extracted in places like the middle east with ZERO environmental, or health and safety, rules or oversight.
Obviously getting off oil entirely is a noble cause, but villinizing the oilsands while ignoring much worse oil production is awfully hypocritical.
Do you honestly think that the oil extracted in the middle east is done so in a more environmentally responsible way?
OK have it your way, the middle east, home of burning well heads, and rivers of oil across the surface, home of workers dying for lack of safety rules. But we'll save the oil sands from being developed (and then replanted as new forests).......YES!..... getting oil from tar/oil sands is MUCH MUCH worse than sucking it out of the ground. You're basically MINING oil. You get the waste water of Fracking AND the surface desolation of strip mining with none of the energy efficiency of an electric motor pulling oil to the surface.
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Oil Sands... when you want to punish your children and grand children in a way they'll NEVER forget.
OK have it your way, the middle east, home of burning well heads, and rivers of oil across the surface, home of workers dying for lack of safety rules. But we'll save the oil sands from being developed (and then replanted as new forests)..
Well, I always knew the propaganda machine worked well, seems you bought it hook line and sinker.
Hmm, well, I guess I'd be more impressed if Germany were lowering it's CO2 emissions rather than raising them. Heavy oil is certainly bad stuff, but soft coal is no slouch.
Germany hasn't really raised its emissions, it just had Fukushima mess up its nuclear decommissioning timetable.
Let's just all admit that all our countries are doing much worse on this than any of us would like.
TQuebec is a massive exporter of clean hydro power to the USA.
For the record I put as much if not more blame in the lap of the party responsible for demanding fossil fuels (The US) vs the country supplying them (In this case Canada). I have no illusions that the US is "Greener" than Canada... we aren't... that said....
https://nextgenclimate.org/keystone/what-are-the-canadian-tar-sands/