Oil Ethics Oil Ethics Table of Contents Abstract 3 Introduction 4 1 Key Facts about the Canadian Oil Sands 5 2 Extraction Process 7 2.1 Mining ........................................................................................................................................ 7 2.2 In-Situ Recovery ......................................................................................................................... 8 2.3 Economic
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Alberta Oil Sands Did you know Canada’s energy mostly comes from Alberta’s oil sands? It has been estimated that between 1.7 trillion and 2.5 trillion barrels of oil come from Alberta. The province’s oil resource plays an important role for the world’s oil supply. It has enough oil to keep Canada supplied for the next 400 years! The oil sands were formed in a pretty complex way.The oil was formed in source rocks‚ then continued pressure from overlying rock forced the oil through permeable rock
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Oil Sands Oil sands are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. They are loose sand or partially consolidated sandstone that contains natural mixtures of clay and sand‚ saturated with a viscous form of petroleum. Natural petroleum deposits are reported in many countries‚ but are found in extremely large quantities in Canada; 70.8% of the globally estimated oil sand reserves are in Canada. Most of the oil sands of Canada are located in northern Alberta. They
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The Development of Oil Sands in Alberta Instructor: Dan Murray Yifan Wang University of Waterloo 15‚ February‚ 2013 Summary A controversy around the development of oil sands in Alberta is developed in this report. Potential factors of its development‚ including economic‚ social‚ and environmental factors‚ are taken into consideration. All the information contained in this report is retrieved from other materials‚ such as peer review‚ journals‚ government reports‚ and online news. All the
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1.0 Introduction The oil sands in Canada (also referred to as tar sands) have been subject to some of the most controversial energy production strategies and economy boosting techniques that have been seen in the past decade. There continues to be much debate over whether the economic benefits outweigh the environmental concerns‚ or vice versa. Throughout this research paper‚ the environmental impacts of the Canadian Oil sands will be analyzed‚ followed by the accompanying economic impacts. Next
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Tillsonburg News on February 07‚ 2011. The title of the article is “It will take more than rebranding to make tar sands oil ‘ethical’ “. In this article‚ David and Faisal point out the result of extracting oil will cause immense harm especially from the PESTEL perspective. They also warn the government to stop using spin doctors and marketing techniques through re-branding and calling it “Ethical Oil”. After reading quite a few articles on this topic‚ both from the political‚ economic and environmental
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Alberta Oil Sands and How It Affects Us Ellie (Pei-Ju) Chen Student ID 3021681 ENV-2603 Professor Bryan Osborne University of Winnipeg Table of Contents “The Price of Tar-Sands Oil”.......................................................................………………………………………………. p3 “Oil Sands Development Contributes Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds to the Athabasca River and Its Tributaries” …………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. p4 “Waste Streams of Mined Oil Sands: Characteristics
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Athabasca oil sands From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the bitumen deposit. For the corporation‚ see Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. Athabasca oil sands Athabasca Oil Sands map.png Country Canada Region Northern Alberta Offshore/onshore Onshore‚ mining Coordinates 57.02°N 111.65°WCoordinates: 57.02°N 111.65°W Operators Syncrude‚ Suncor‚ CNRL‚ Shell‚ Total‚ Imperial Oil‚ Petro Canada‚ Devon‚ Husky‚ Statoil‚ Nexen Partners Chevron‚ Marathon‚ ConocoPhillips‚ BP‚ Oxy
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importance of oil in our society is so great that it affects developed and developing countries. It is a huge contributor to economic growth and environmental destruction. Although the Alberta Oil Sands has destroyed acres of local and global (indirectly) ecosystems‚ it has achieved and ensured that Canada stays as an economic power. The economical‚ cultural‚ and political benefits the oil sands give to Canada makes it an irreplaceable asset to our nation and our global community The oil sands have always
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Debate Given the carbon costs the Athabasca Tar sands should not be allowed to continue production. Not only will the cost rise when there is little oil left but the tar sands also create a lot of pollution. If they are not careful the cost is going to get outrageously high because they will eventually have to pay for some of the damage they cause with all the pollution they make. If they continue it will ruin the environment around the oil sands and they will hurt the environment in many other
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