Athabasca Oil Sands

Manufacturing oil is the most important job for those who live in Northern Alberta. In the Athabasca oil sands workers have produced oil since 1967. The industry has created more than a million jobs for workers and is the third largest in the world. Producing 2.3 million barrels of oil a day and expanding the oil sands are exploring some conflicts. The 30 different first nation groups in the surrounding areas oppose to this issue. The problem in the Athabasca Oil Sands is similar to the movie

Introduction The Athabasca oil sands are the second largest producer of crude oil in the world, with a surface area of approximately 100 000 square kilometres (Anderson, Giesy & Wiseman, 2010). The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board estimates that the oil sands contains approximately 1.7 trillion barrels of crude bitumen, however only 19% can be ultimately recovered (Raynolds, Severson-Baker & Woynillowicz, 2005; Humphries, 2008). The availability of recoverable bitumen makes Canada’s oil sands deposit larger

The Alberta Oil Sands Situated in Canada, Alberta's three oil sand areas are known as the Athabasca oil sands, the Cold Lake oil sands, and the Peace River oil sands. The sands are worth approximately $1 trillion and they are the largest export in the industry. Currently, the oil provides jobs for about 514,000 people across Canada, and in 2028 this is expected to grow to over 800,000 jobs1. In Canada, almost every community has been touched by the oil sands development through the impact it has

Oil has become extremely vital in our society, so vital that it has affected developed and developing countries. It is a massive contributor to economic growth as well as environmental destruction. The Alberta Oil Sands has destroyed acres of local ecosystems, but has also 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 asset they can not function without. The oil sands have been Canada’s major

May 16, 2018, a town hall meeting was held at AREA to determine whether or not to advance and increase the production of oil sands and the Northern Gateway Pipeline project. Nine groups attended with various insights regarding the oil sands production and the Northern Gateway pipeline project. Oil sands are a combination of sand, water, clay, and bitumen. Extraction of oil sands can create petroleum products that are efficient. With several economic advantages of importing such a powerful source

largest proven Oil reserves. The province of Alberta alone contains 98% of all these reserves, discovered in Canada (1). This is why Alberta holds the key position in Canadian economy as Canada is the fourth largest exporter of the oil and it makes up almost one-quarter of Canada 's exports as well as Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Almost 99% of Alberta oil reserves are contained in oil sands and the remaining 1% are present as conventional crude oil. According to an estimation, Oil sands contain up to

energy company intending to build two opposite flowing parallel pipelines, transporting crude oil westbound from the rich Athabasca tar sands, and natural gas condensate eastbound from the coast of British Columbia. The purpose of transporting bitumen to the west coast is in order to have an outlet to the Pacific Ocean and subsequently export to the growing Asian oil markets via oil tankers. Alberta’s tar sands are estimated to have 166 billion barrels of proven reserves as of 2014, and production capacity

which provides for us, and ultimately our means of survival. We are going to talk about the Alberta tar sands development, and about how they are not effectively protecting their environment. This has already led to negative effects in the surrounding areas. These effects will only continue to worsen, if nothing is done to slow down, or further prevent them from happening. The Alberta tar sands, is currently the largest construction project taking place in the world, and as such is a very important

going to talk about the Alberta tar sands development, and about how they are not effectively protecting their environment. This has already led to negative effects in the surrounding areas. These effects will only continue to worsen, if nothing is done to slow down, or further prevent them from happening. The Alberta tar sands, is currently the largest construction project taking place in the world, and as such is a very important development. The Alberta tar sands are a necessary evil, because the

Tar Sands” was a Greenpeace film produced by Peter Mettler. The shots came primarily from a helicopter offering an overview of the world's largest industrial energy project. In the beginning of the film, they introduced the term bitumen. Bitumen comes from the extraction of crude oil and needs a lot of water to produce. They also emphasized Canada's tar sands are an oil reserve the size of England. During the film, they mostly compared the differences of the forest around it and the tar sand itself