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Post by Kimby on Jul 14, 2011 16:26:19 GMT
Canada's Boreal Forest is the North American continent's greatest songbird nursery. It is threatened by Big Oil's plans to strip mine thousands of acres for tar sands to produce oil that will be moved by a planned pipeline from Alberta to Texas refineries. The pipeline (as evidenced by the recent Yellowstone River Exxon pipeline rupture) threatens drinking water and wildlife habitat. This is a nightmare about to happen. On our watch. Shame on us!
Watch this short video, courtesy of Natural Resource Defense Council. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring could be here before we know it...
And our silent spring, will be bixa's silent winter....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2011 19:12:06 GMT
Right now in Europe, there is a big campaign to stop schist oil before it even gets started -- another nasty piece of business!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2011 12:10:06 GMT
The oil sands of Alberta are indeed a challenge. But there is a lot of oil there. What an effort to make is usable though.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 24, 2011 20:34:51 GMT
It wouldn't be so awful if it was just a technological challenge to make the oil usable. It's the awful environmental devastation to get it out of the ground in the first place that makes this oil so dirty.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2011 18:32:47 GMT
Yeah, I know what you mean, Kimby. I read a detailed article about this subject in the readers digest magazine. And I must admit I was like WTF? Just the whole concept of getting oil out of this massive sand bed is mind boggling. And yet they say that the waste products used to do this will be safely disposed of. hmm...I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens. It is worrying though, the last thing I, (and Canadians in general) want is a massive environmental disaster to pollute our great country.
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 27, 2011 8:52:28 GMT
The oil sands of Alberta are indeed a challenge. But there is a lot of oil there. What an effort to make is usable though. It'll cost more energy (and I am not even discussing the environmental effects as Kimby does it much better than I could try to) to produce than what it'll produce. It does not make ANY sense whatsoever. The oil companies are all investing in renewables as they know their black business is finished... just not ready to stop milking governments around the world, though! |
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Post by Kimby on Jun 12, 2024 15:56:12 GMT
There’s a book called Fire Weather that goes into great detail about how the tar sands oil is extracted. The book is about climate change and a huge forest fire that decimated Fort McMurray, the boom town that grew up around the tar sands extraction business. In the US, we have (again) stopped the Keystone XL pipeline that would transfer this oil across Native American lands and important aquifers. But a new administration could start it right back up again…  |
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