opinions on the issue of the “Tar sands” or “Oil sands” (I shall use both unambiguously) development. Environmentalists (like myself) and concerned citizens in Canada‚ as well as the international community‚ decry that the largest industrial energy project on the face of the planet is destroying future generation’s right to clean soil‚ water‚ air‚ biodiversity and most importantly a stable climate. As well as strong local economy‚ the current economic setup of the tar sands’ development is to focus on
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Tar Sands The majority of oil used by the United States as well as internationally soon may come from the tar sands in Alberta‚ Canada. Extracting oil from tar sands is an extremely costly and immensely dirty way of obtaining fuel. There is currently a plan to build a pipeline‚ the Keystone XL‚ which will run from the supply of tar sands in Albert down the western United States to refineries in Texas. There are two major concerns when dealing with the creation of this pipeline and the increased
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the Alberta tar sands worthwhile‚ knowing its devastating effects on the environment? There are very valid points for both arguments‚ being them economical‚ political‚ environmental‚ or moral. The mining of bitumen is not something that is sustainable for the environment‚ or the companies involved. Although these open-pit mines produce much of the world’s oil‚ people should consider paying more at the pumps rather than destroying the only world we have to live in. The tar sands in Alberta essentially
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The oil sands are located within one of the world’s most admired democracies and they represent the largest source of crude oil directly available to the North American Market (pg. 24). The dream of recovering oil from the Alberta bitumen on a commercial basis was born in 1900s‚ when John Rockefeller was building Standard Oil‚ that is now known as ExxonMobil. Over the years‚ many companies took interest‚ and Sun Oil‚ began processing bitumen from the oil sands in 1967 (pg. 3). Suncor’s parent company
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Alberta Tar Sands Sustainability Report Introduction Tar sands are a combination of clay‚ sand‚ water‚ and bitumen. As a type of unconventional petroleum deposit‚ tar sands are found in many places worldwide‚ the largest deposits are found in Alberta‚ Canada. The Alberta tar sand deposits contain more than 70.8% of the world ’s reserves of natural bitumen which representing 40% of the world’s combined extra-heavy crude oil and crude bitumen reserves. It is the only bitumen deposits that are economically
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“Sandplay therapists who work in the way Kalff taught differentiate sandplay from sand tray therapy‚" said Lauren Cunningham‚ a founding member of STA and the editor of The Journal of Sandplay Therapy. "Sand tray therapy is a more generic term referring to a variety of effective ways of using sand‚ figures and a container from different theoretical perspectives." She continued‚ "Sandplay therapy emphasises the spontaneous and dynamic qualities of the creative experience itself. The essence of sandplay
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 General Foundry sand is high quality silica sand with uniform physical characteristics. It is a byproduct of ferrous and nonferrous metal casting industries‚ where sand has been used for centuries as a molding material because of its thermal conductivity. It is a byproduct from the production of both ferrous and nonferrous metal castings. The physical and chemical characteristics of foundry sand will depend in great part on the type of casting process
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RELATED STUDIES Rose Essential Oil Shown To Have Anti-Stress Effects ere’s a new‚ very interesting study noting that inhalation of Rose essential oil (and implied that ‘inhaling sedative oils in general can produce the same result) can limit stress on the skin‚ and limit production of stress hormones in general. Many leaps can be made with these results‚ as while the direct observation was only made on the skin barrier‚ the cause was resultant do to lessening of stress-inducing enzymes reduced
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Sand dunes are a very important part of the ecosystem. They hold many plant and animal species‚ some of which are even endangered or on the verge of extinction. People of the community and non-profit organizations have been trying to preserve the sand dunes for many years. Sand dunes are destroyed by winter storms and hurricanes. But that is just part of nature. People destroy sand dunes. When people walk on sand dunes‚ they leave weak spots. The wind picks up the sand and carries it out to sea
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Alberta Oil Sands because of how it affects people’s health‚ there is a limited supply of it‚ and how it affects the environment. Firstly‚ the health of those who live around the Oil Sands is negatively affected. A study made by the Alberta Cancer Board in 2009 showed that people who lived about 250 kilometers away from a tar sands development were experiencing higher than normal rates of cancer (ForestEthics). This study indicates that there is a correlation between one’s health and the Oil Sands; the
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