Discover Canada's devastating oil sands

To consider that the actual land degradation is all that matters is - well what does one expect from the brain-iacs on this site - anyway - a small factory in Bhopal leaked a bit of gas - nothing serious there......slurry run off from the odd hog farm causing dead zones - no harm there, acidification of rivers, no harm - are you guys completely insane ?

Canada is the U.S. number one supplier of Oil - this is one of their prime means of meeting this target and is expected to increase ten fold - the process is 3 times more demanding on fuel supplies and carbon emmissions and you simply equate the area being shredded as a non event. Times this area by ten for where it may scale up to - times that area by another factor of ten for the surrounding impact site via air pollution, river contamination, water table contamination etc.

It is is incredibly moronic to look at the great swathes of nature and think "its real big - we cant possible damage that" - well we have - we have damaged the entire planet beyond recognition.

Get a grip.

Australia has a fraction of Canada's - is a continent in its own right - massive - and yet we have decimated MASSIVE areas of it beyond repair.

Has anyone here ever actually been at one of these places? I worked for Suncor, one of the 2 big players up there. They actually invented getting the oil out of the sand.

While these mines are huge, and quite ugly, they are no where near as bad as it has been made out. Plus they are getting away from the mines since they have come up with better technology in the last 40 years.

Alot of the companies now are getting into SAGD (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) to get the oil out. Basically you saturate the oilsands with wet steam from the top and collect it at the bottom. Also it is only the northern part of the Athabasca Oilsands that are being mined. In the mid to southern region they use pumps and get the oil out that way. The mines only make a small percentage of oil recovery in that field.

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WWF is calling for a freeze on further oil sands developments.

WWF , who cares.... Do you know who these people are? There a bunch of globalist there behind Agenda 21 and sustainable development. There is a war on against the human race. They want you stacked on top of one another in cities. They don't want people living in rural areas.

Prince Philip who is a big wig within the WWF said , he'd like to come back as a deadly virus to wipe out this over populated planet. David Suzuki is another psycho population reductionist. Sustainable development is a code word for murder.



[edit on 1-8-2008 by Swingarm]

I think finding a better way to extract it would be the best option.
I don't like oil, I think we should by now be using something else.
But the reality is they are not going to stop using it.
So therefore the demand is always going to be there.
So finding a better less destructive way to extract is would be a more valuable thing that just saying stop.
Because we all know they wont stop seeking it.And wherever they go to get they seem to destroy.