one day? Here's some info from a Canadian newspaper. Many say Canada is essential to our energy independence and future, but why does our government look like its phasing out oil sands, when refineries in the south/mid-west are planning to take major streams from canada's heavy oil - and major pipelines are being built for this reason?
The official provincial Athabasca river-water license is for only 1.8 per cent of the river's annual flow and the oilsands industry has never used even one per cent, and (b) counting both river water and underground water (much of which is saline and not potable), the oilsands industry captures and recycles more than 90 per cent of the water it uses. It takes ~ 1800 bbls of potable water to make one barrel of ethanol. Based on the typical Canadian oilsands crude oil blend, the full-cycle emissions from using oilsands oil are, to be sure, more than conventional oil but still fairly close to the full-cycle emissions from other conventional oil brands: 15 per cent more than Edmonton par, only nine per cent more than Saudi Arabia, eight per cent more than Mexico, six per cent more than Nigeria, but three per cent less than Venezuela. The three Alberta oilsands and heavy-oil areas comprise 36 million acres, of which the ERCB rates only 7.5 million acres as "developable" at today's prices and with today's technology. Of this amount, only 832,000 acres can be mined and only 131,000 acres are being mined today, which is less than the area of Calgary. These areas will be reclaimed; the same can’t be said about cities. There are 42,000 bird deaths a year are caused by windmills in North America, about 800 birds per week. Oil has been seeping into the Athabasca River for thousands of years, due to the minable oil sands being so close to the surface.
The official provincial Athabasca river-water license is for only 1.8 per cent of the river's annual flow and the oilsands industry has never used even one per cent, and (b) counting both river water and underground water (much of which is saline and not potable), the oilsands industry captures and recycles more than 90 per cent of the water it uses. It takes ~ 1800 bbls of potable water to make one barrel of ethanol. Based on the typical Canadian oilsands crude oil blend, the full-cycle emissions from using oilsands oil are, to be sure, more than conventional oil but still fairly close to the full-cycle emissions from other conventional oil brands: 15 per cent more than Edmonton par, only nine per cent more than Saudi Arabia, eight per cent more than Mexico, six per cent more than Nigeria, but three per cent less than Venezuela. The three Alberta oilsands and heavy-oil areas comprise 36 million acres, of which the ERCB rates only 7.5 million acres as "developable" at today's prices and with today's technology. Of this amount, only 832,000 acres can be mined and only 131,000 acres are being mined today, which is less than the area of Calgary. These areas will be reclaimed; the same can’t be said about cities. There are 42,000 bird deaths a year are caused by windmills in North America, about 800 birds per week. Oil has been seeping into the Athabasca River for thousands of years, due to the minable oil sands being so close to the surface.