Canada's Tar Sands: The most destructive project on Earth? - Truthloader
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- Canada's Tar Sands is the third-largest proven crude oil reserve in the world behind Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. In 2011 it was believed the reserve amounted to 170.2 billion barrels of oil, or about 11% of total global oil reserves. But the development of Canada's Oil Sands is concerning environmentalists for several reasons, not least the fact that producing "tar oil", or "sand oil" as it's also known, releases three times the volume of greenhouse gas emissions as conventional oil.
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One of the most regulated and environmentally conscious countries that are oil producing.
Really???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This channel getting carried by schools
Nah, this channel is clearly dead and never coming back from the group. It's been dead for so long now that people have forgotten to unsubscribe.
my teacher hasn’t forgotten about this channel 😐
This has to stop immediately 😧🤬😔 the environment is so much more important than the economy. Why don’t people realize that we depend on our planet and have to treat it that way.
Go net zero. It can start with you.
The *WORST MAN MADE DISASTER* that you can possibly imagine. After filming Avatar the director James Cameron took a trip to Alberta Canada because he didn't think that places and destructions like the one on his film actually existed, and so close home yet kept out the main media. Canada's media doesn't touch it, too much money involved.
I've never seen such a callous act in a country like Canada, the peace keepers of the world, the destroyers of pristine nature. PMs after PMs in Canada don't even mention it, instead they rather focus on sanctioning Russia or bomb someone in the middle east. Shame on you Canada, shame on you Alberta.
well i can assure you that they will restore the area to some state better than what it is now because this is not in some remote area in Antarctica this somewhat close to settlements.
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I was working up there when you were filming this. I worked up there for another 7 years . Loved it. Retired now but if I was young thats where I would be.
Do people actually watch this? like.. Outside of school?
no
I just did. I am from Canada
Hell yeah brother! Knowledge is power😎
Yep
Extracting oil from such low-profitability sources is a sign of total desperation and means we are far past the cheap oil times.
Oh, and the destruction of the entire planet 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫
"Yo Canada, what's good? It's America. Uhh, can I get that 2.6million barrels of oil today on the front? You kno I'm good for it :)
The Athabaska river has always been polluted naturally as it is on the side of the oil sands and oil naturally seeps into the river in other words naturally polluting it
Its the MAN made chemicals they use to brake down the oil that leaks and causes the problem thats what is in the man made ponds.
TheWorldAroundMe what he means is even before the plant existed it was still being polluted because it's next to the oil sands
They use water to clean the sand. In truth they are cleaning up a giant oil spill @@the666not666
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Anyone who calls themselves “TRUTHloader” is not truthful
And somehow we still pay 1.40$ per litre of gas in Canada.
this is why aliens wont visit us!
It has recently been found that the mining of tar sand in Canada produces about as much air pollutants all the other sources of pollution for the country combined. That includes transportation, other industries, agriculture, everything.
This kind of progapanda makes me laugh. I didn't finish my chemical engineering degree yet. But I think I have knowledge enough to say this.
"Oh, watch, there's a large tower expelling a large white cloud!"
That's a cooling tower. It expels steam. Just water. Some stuff you use to drink.
"Oh, there's a torch on that chimney, you assassins!"
Yes. Actually fear when that torch is off. Its purpose is decomposing highly contaminating gases and particles into more safe stuff. (The example would be decomposing NO2 ( nitrogen dioxide, cause of acid rain) into nitrogen(70% or above of our atmosphere) and oxigen (that stuff you use to breath)).
The fact here is that YOU need the industry. Are you worried about your planet? Of course, you should. But I think the main target should be re-educating the whole world. The fact is that industry depends, mainly, on the demand. We consume and pollute more than we can even imagine.
Governments around the world don't spend money enough to promote clean industry (and hey, it's possible).
"Environmental engineering projects? Wow, that's expensive, guy..." (but hey, it's also possible).
Also there's the huge hipocrisy in millions of people when they say 'no to nuclear power'.
It's the cleanest power known for the moment. It has no atmosferical contamination (yes, that cloud is steam from cooling, mate), it's completely safe. You only don't have to be fool enough to build a plant on a plate limit. Or building a plant that has no kind of security (it happened a long time ago in eastern europe, if you remember).
Also there are lots of research projects about more effective and clean ways to generate power. But it's better to spend money, for example, in politicians' drugs, harmful media (you just have to turn on your TV nowadays) and a long etc full of the most expensive crap in the world.
Then, we would not need that amount of fossile fuels, which are really contaminating.
Going back to industries, there exist lots of post-processes for waste treatment (and usually they give useful byproducts!). But they're expensive, and that's not attractive to businessmen, the main responsible people here. An engineer designs a plant. But there's a guy who has the money and usually says "no, mate". Consider now the possibility that the government would give economical support to force those guys to say "okay".
The main target here would be educating the society, giving everyone knowledge to understand what's happening around and make them smart to decide by themselves. That would be what they call "democracy". That would be a bit more fair. Don't you think so?.
I hope someone had patience enough to read this wall of text.
Get a girlfriend .
@@peterm3964 stop projecting your pathetic existence onto others
@@peterm3964 That guy is terrified for his future in the oil sands
Certified yapper
How old are those pictures? Flare stacks have been outlawed for over 15 years. They've also proven more birds, bats, and insects are killed by wind turbines in a month than birds dying in tailing ponds in 5 years. Alberta has the highest standards for environmental protection and preservation in the world. When an area is finished, the reclamation begins and there are now 10s of thousands of new pastures, wetlands, streams, creeks, and forest, These have been created providing habitat for wildlife and expanding the boreal forests were before the land was dead due to Nature's oil spill.
Catch up.
10+ years
As a proud Canadian and an environmental major I can safely say that the OIL sands are not the cleanest or best way of getting oil. However, the oil sands, as stated in the video, are one of the largest oil reserves in the world and almost all of it goes to the US. People who are unaware of the way the flow of oil operation in the economy will say that this is the worst way of extracting oil because it is ugly. What these people fail to realize is that the oil sands helped Canada weather the economic nightmare that was caused by our southern "friends" and in part kept our economy afloat. There is a company called Cenovus that operates in the oil sands that does not use the strip mining method of extraction. and there are some companies that do not use fresh water for the extraction process, or even produce tailings ponds. People need to realize that this operation exists because there is a demand that needs to be satisfied. orginizations like the RDN and Greenpeace targeting the wives of the CEOs of Canadian banks and harassing people that are not envolved does not help the cause. if you want to really blame someone we need to blame ourselves because we are the ones who keep buying oil. the oil sands can be done properly and we just have to encourage that to happen.
You make it sound like it would be wrong to harass bankers? Harass away! Please keep them awake all night!
love how they are calling removal of harmful oil from sand a "destructive" project yet Kobalt mining for those EV cars that love to catch on fire and leave even worse chemicals in the air safe...
This article is total bullshit and I will argue anyone who say's otherwise.
Consider this: GHG emissions from Alberta due to oil sands operation is 0.010% of the entire world. Fine, don't believe me you can do your own research. Which means even if you shut down oil sands the GHG emissions will have ZERO effects globally.
And second, out of the 170 Billion barrels only 15% is mineable. And therefore the other 85% of the oil is too deep to mine the oil and you have to inject steam to get the oil and you drill wells to extract the oil similar to conventional drilling methods. And 90% of the steam used to heat the oil is recycled and re-used on the process.
I ask you all to not blindly believe this bullshit sponsored by environmental groups when they don't have the facts and you do further research to learn the truth.
+TheMagnumb Your claim about volcanoes is wrong. Wrong by a factor of 100. Not 100%, 100 times.
I'm Canadian and this doesn't surprise me at all... any tourism commercial for Canada will illustrate crystal clear water, abundant wild life. Next to vibrant, kind city folk who all work outdoors. Reality is that part of Canada you see in commercials is a frozen desolation 8 months of the year. the small sliver next to the states where we live is by no means clean. Do I have to mention WIndsor or Sarnia... My home town London has one of the worst polluted lakes in all of North America. Thanks Labatts. As for the millions of dollars that go into innovative solutions... sorry to tell you that's a tax loop hole..
Go the the States then, seeing as they polluted that lake, and so you have real things to bitch about.
I like how they only showed ONE open pit mine. All the images shown are from only ONE open pit mine. Everyone reading this - please look up SAGD technology. 100% Canadian technology and 100% clean. These images are from CNRL HORIZON - open pit mine.
If you think there us clean energy when talking oil ur a true fucktard
I live in Canada, I always see commercials about the tar sands, they say it is not polluting Canada. Awesome episode, learned a lot
You didn't learn anything from this it is anti oil sand propaganda
@@nickkelly7926 YUP!
you didnt leanr anything from this, its a hit piece on the oil sands
@@cloutogelevatedtv9000 what does that mean?
@@Mingorix sorry I was really drunk and angry when I commented, but this video is one large hit piece on the oil sands, 1 major thing is that nobody calls it the tar sands. Another thing is I work on these sites, and you wouldn't understand the pains we go through to keep our ecological impact as well as our carbon impact to the minimum while trying to double the output that we can put out to the refineries to be sent to the public
Our oil sands are far from perfect and I do think that continuing research into cleaner and more efficient extraction techniques as well a land restoration techniques is essential to everyone's well being. But I don't think it is fair to for people, organizations and countries to demonize them as much as they have been. Here is why.
1) The oil is already there in the biologically active layer of earth, so risk of contaminating that earth is mutte.
2) The project is RELATIVELY contained. Although contaminating any water is really bad and that DOES need to be addressed, the oil sands can't fail catastrophically like BP's Deep Horizons did. Funny how countries aren't boycotting BP oil after that.
3) Threatening trade wars with Canada is kind of a joke. Canada has well educated citizens, abundant resources in every category and Is the top or close to the top in producing ALL forms of energy. If europe doesn't want cheap oil (despite needing it), everyone else will.
Look, the oil must and will be extracted because society is not breaking it's dependence on oil fast enough and so still need it to maintain it's current level of existence. This is the cost of procrastination. If you want to stop projects like the oil sands then stop needing and demanding so much oil. Come up with solutions, not complaints.
EXACTLY. Another point missed is that we Canadians do not use the revenues from our oil to purchase US munitions to invade and murder people in other countries like the Saudis, Venezuelans, Yanks, etc. If you don't want our oil, quit bitching. We can go elsewhere with our bounty.
THis comment din't age very well did it. oil sands caused huge destruction to the land and water.
@@GowthamV07 I never said the oil sand were a good thing, I mentioned that they do cause destruction and does need to be addressed, it's just less than oil infrastructure at sea causes. Also, like I predicted, no one started a trade war over our oilsands. My comment aged just fine I.M.O.
@@GowthamV07 Yes, that oil has been doing that for millions of years, which is why it needs to be removed and used up. That oil seeps out of the ground and into the soil and rivers naturally. Mother natures big mess.This project is reclaiming that land. Looks messy while in progress but so does surgery. Will be beautiful forest when it's all done.
Aren’t you the people who demand China and India to be sanctioned because of their environmental destruction?
This is what oil haters refuse to understand. Oil comes to the surface eventually whether humans are involved or not. The Ft Mcmurray oil sands and La Brea tar pits are 2 excellent examples of this fact. And the periodic oil slicks appear off Santa Barbara and Huntington Beach are 2 more. Irrespective of nobody drilling there in 50 years.
I worked there in 2005/06.The material is boiled which lowers the level of the rivers and the leftover toxic material and water is piped into ponds. The refineries burn off what they dont need into the atmosphere. In Alberta, oil production comes first. I have fond memories of working there......working with a tight crew in sometimes brutal weather....driving and operating huge equipment. The city was another story....
Environmentalists are concerned that the waste products of refining the oil is toxic and ruining the environment. This may be true, however consider this; the by products of production can't be nearly as bad for the local environment and eco system as the oil sands were in the first place, which clearly contain much more oil
The European Union uses 13.6 million barrels a day on pace with the United States which uses 19.1 million barrels a day. If you look at the size between the E.U and the U.S I would say its a pretty close match up... I live in the U.S. and while I'm not proud of the energy we waste. We are all in this game together... NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE...
We as humans, no matter where we live and no matter how much our country pollutes, need to step up. I'm willing to walk to work and school and ride buses if it means even a little less pollution.
just a question, why didn't you mention the reclamation projects going on as well as places like bison viewpoint, Wapisiw Lookout, as well as Wood Bison Gateway & The Matcheetawin Trails. As well you decided not to mention the amount of trees companies in Fort McMurray have also planted I believe as of a few years ago it was up to 7 million trees
Only a very small percentage has been 'reclaimed'.
Lol 7 million trees is pathetic
Listen, old man, your figures and comments are just what the big oil companies love to trumpet, as if they are conscientiously mitigating their massive, permanent destruction of our natural resources. Water? Trees? Land? Birds? O, and People? Next thing, we'll hear all about 'carbon credits'. You destroy 1000 square miles of forest, plant a million trees, and sleep well at night because some idiot banks 'reward' you for doing the right thing. That precious water is permanently poisoned and pumped right back into Mother Earth's lap. When you die, old man, they'll bury you in a hazardous chemical mud hole. And your spirit will dig its way out and flee, I mean flee. Bye bye birdy, bye bye.
I realize I'm very late on the reply, but you're absolutely right. There is more Reclamation being done in Northern Alberta than most people realize. Another thing, the naysayers can believe it or not, but until we got up there and started cleaning up the stuff, it was just running into the rivers and creeks at will. All were doing up there is basically cleaning up 100 million year old oil spill LOL
We might regret polluting our water to get energy, not just from the oil sands, but from fracking too. With the advent of global warming water might become much more precious than oil
Epitome of the absolute insanity of industrial civilization.
i doubt this is more destructive than the 3 gorges dam, or the deforestation of Brazil/Indonesia by cattle/palm oil farmers.
+turd ferguson then your and idiot
Drill baby drill, or in this case dig baby dig . I believe Canada should increase production of its energy output
if the oil industry makes 108 billion dollars a year, or around that, why cant atleast 20-40 percent of that go into research for green technology instead of only 1 percent!??! what the chicken
Correction! Venezuela doesn't have tar sand - but pitch lake. Big difference!
Good thing i wasn't born yesterday, at least by the time im 70 i will have seen what green there was left on this earth, before the mass cancer breakout begins.
why you gotta jynx us man
The tar sands are in California. This is Canadian technology cleaning up the natural occurring oil sands. Similar to peanut butter. This oil has been spilling for centuries. The Indians used it to waterproof their canoes. But that's history. Canadians are cleaning it up now. It'll take some time, so be patient.
travismccullough1938 It's oil sands, there's no tar in the area. Your silly ass contacts can't change the fact that oil sands are not tar sands. Get educated. Stop listening to alarmists. They are all con men. Maybe a few bitches thrown in with the lot.
+eagleriver elder I don't know if you are Phishing or what. Clearly you didn't read either article so I can only conclude you are illiterate at the least. It is technically called bituminous sands not tar or oil sands so you are the ignorant one there. Finally please read the articles or don't respond. I won't respond anymore unless you prove you can read. Finally, yes, I have been to Fort Mac. I thought it was disgusting and my family has been in Alberta since the late 1800's. Oh and please stop swearing as part of your defence as it makes you sound even dumber than you have proven you are. Goodbye!
travismccullough1938 I don't know if you're one of them alarmists but oil is not tar.
Alarmists being alarmists always steer the language to their use.
This is how the alarmist double-talk works, remember it must always be inflated so as to create a panic in the minds of the simple folk.
Less alkaline becomes more acidic even though the acidic state will never be reached. Less acidic is never stated as more alkaline.
A light shower in the desert, by the same token, becomes more flooded.
A shovel full of dirt thrown into a depression becomes more mountainous.
Drain a swamp and it becomes more arid.
An ice cube melts and it become hotter.
And the best one of all. I almost got suckered here. A couple of years ago the alarmists claimed that the south of England was as hot as the Sahara desert. After an internet search, it was revealed that a cold front had moved into north Africa and the Sahara desert became as cool as southern England. Very clever them scammers.
+eagleriver elder you are too stupid to handle
Ida Blomberg You are too dumb to understand.
A crime against humanity. Alberta's tarsands are a disgrace.
This video is designed for shock value and fails to show many of the responsibly developed technologies to retrieve oil from the sands. SAGD (Steam assisted gravity drainage) requires very little ground disturbance as the oil is drilled for and water used in the process is recycled. The plant I work at recycles over 90% of it's water.
sigh at least I live on east...with all the dead fishies
ok
the fact that we're even considering mining tar sands shows how far over peak oil we are, and just how far in the shit we are in terms of required oil production to sustain our way of life. we seriously need to be the putting effort in now to developing fusion, hydrogen and solar power to replace our energy needs and developing graphene and other materials to replace plastics. tar sands is such a ridiculous method of generating power, it could only be thought up in a seriously desperate situation by people who know just how deep the hole we are.
It’s not “Tar Sands” James. It’s oil in sand. Thus “Oil Sands” ! Anyhow.. The OilSands projects should be considered this planets largest land reclamation project ever undertaken. Whereas think about the fact that the OilSands on the near surface and near streams and the water table. Actually bubble out of the earth when it gets hot out. It looks disgusting to. Now after millions of years of it being there beside the water. it’s time we clean it all up and put back the earth more vibrant and teaming with life than there ever has been. This video completely takes truth out of context.👈🤬 For example (1) Multiple facilities up there and Canadians in general “all use natural gas” because it’s a way cleaner alternative heating fuel than coal. (Debunked).
Anyhow James I will leave you to think about your dreams of a battery powered world without plastics. Which country are you going to fill your car up with tomorrow James. 🇨🇦👈🤷♂️⁉️
The cold truth about the energy lie.
- Democrats dream of powering society entirely with wind and solar farms combined with massive batteries. Realizing this dream would require the biggest expansion in mining the world has ever seen and would produce huge quantities of waste.
“Renewable energy” is a misnomer. Wind and solar electricity generating machines and batteries are built from nonrenewable materials. And they wear out. Old equipment must be decommissioned, generating millions of tons of waste. The International Renewable Energy Agency calculates that solar goals for 2050 consistent with the Paris Accords will result in old-panel disposal constituting more than double the tonnage of all today’s global plastic waste. Consider some other sobering numbers:
A single electric-car battery weighs about 1,000 pounds. Fabricating one requires digging up, moving and processing more than 500,000 pounds of raw materials somewhere on the planet. The alternative? Use gasoline and extract one-tenth as much total tonnage to deliver the same number of vehicle-miles over the battery’s seven-year life.
When electricity comes from wind or solar machines, every unit of energy produced, or mile traveled, requires far more materials and land than fossil fuels. That physical reality is literally visible: A wind or solar farm stretching to the horizon can be replaced by a handful of gas-fired turbines, each no bigger than a tractor-trailer.
Building one wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of nonrecyclable plastic. Solar power requires even more cement, steel and glass-not to mention other metals. Global silver and indium mining will jump 250% and 1,200% respectively over the next couple of decades to provide the materials necessary to build the number of solar panels, the International Energy Agency forecasts. World demand for rare-earth elements-which aren’t rare but are rarely mined in America-will rise 300% to 1,000% by 2050 to meet the Paris green goals. If electric vehicles replace conventional cars, demand for cobalt and lithium, will rise more than 20-fold. That doesn’t count batteries to back up wind and solar grids.
Last year a Dutch government-sponsored study concluded that the Netherlands’ green ambitions alone would consume a major share of global minerals. “Exponential growth in [global] renewable energy production capacity is not possible with present-day technologies and annual metal production,” it concluded.
The demand for minerals likely won’t be met by mines in Europe or the U.S. Instead, much of the mining will take place in nations with oppressive labor practices. The Democratic Republic of the Congo produces 70% of the world’s raw cobalt, and China controls 90% of cobalt refining. The Sydney-based Institute for a Sustainable Future cautions that a global “gold” rush for minerals could take miners into “some remote wilderness areas [that] have maintained high biodiversity because they haven’t yet been disturbed.”
What’s more, mining and fabrication require the consumption of hydrocarbons. Building enough wind turbines to supply half the world’s electricity would require nearly two billion tons of coal to produce the concrete and steel, along with two billion barrels of oil to make the composite blades. More than 90% of the world’s solar panels are built in Asia on coal-heavy electric grids.
Engineers joke about discovering “unobtanium,” a magical energy-producing element that appears out of nowhere, requires no land, weighs nothing, and emits nothing. Absent the realization of that impossible dream, hydrocarbons remain a far better alternative than today’s green dreams.
@@kevinparkernde Imma just copy this for the essay I have to write.
@@crest4never521 copy away my friend. The more people out there given a chance to be informed with the real facts. The sooner we will all start to be able to start “protecting” our environment. We will never stop earth warming, or climate change, or any other cliche term the powers that be come up with to tax us. We’ve been on defrost since the end of the last ice age.
the pipeline would help canada use our own oil, instead we are exporting it and importing refined resources such as petroleum since we have no means of refining.
My question is, how much of the oil sand oil is going to be exported once it is refined in Texas? There seems to be no information on this. I think that tells the whole story of why it is being piped to Texas. What about the inevitable oil leaks from the pipeline? Who is going to pay for the cleanup? When the leaks occur, is the oil company going to be fined, a small fee in relations to the profits, are they going to continue piping the oil? of course they are. We have seen this all before. However, we all know that in the end, they will get their pipe line, regardless.
Tar is the left over residue from combusted organic matter. Oil is different because the organic matter has been metamorphosized by the imense pressure from the miles of rock over top of it. I've seen the oil sands with my own eyes and the project isn't as destructive as this video portrays. Sure the mining operation is very close to the athabasca river and there is no doubt of leeching contaminants from the project, but most of the tailings ponds have been reclaimed and are perfectly suitable for life. They reuse the water from the tailings ponds instead of taking it from the river. The suncor mine is massive but not nearly as massive as the videos on TH-cam show. Plus this whole operation is providing thousands of people with well paid jobs.
This is why we need to end the dependency on oil. It is so outdated as a form of energy it is beyond belief. All the advancements in technology, most of which truthloader has videos on makes all of this oil use look stupid. Battery tech, solar energy tech and many other renewable's are so easily and cheaply made these days there is no reason for us to still be using oil. The only reason we are is because it is BIG MONEY to those in control of its production and distribution.
no oil is gud
It makes awesome jobs that pay good and keeps families fed.
@@mturzanski no it doesn't, the oil and coal sector is shrinking in terms of job growth and employment.
@@nataliekhanyola5669 not what from i can see, being employed in that sector, and ontop of that yes i agree clean energy is the way to go but the only people funding it on a useful level are the oil companies.
Keystone Pipeline-What are we waiting for?!?
Let's get that thing built and get the high paying jobs that come with it..
our world is fucked no matter what we do on it.
hello again lol
Awesome that the Oil Company is cleaning up that massive natural oil spill removing it from the environment
so nice of them
BULLSHIT if you are beliving this CRAP
@@moskito5864 have you spent anytime time in the tar sands? If you have you'd know that the dirt natural spills oil out of it into the rivers around it, the bitumen sticks to your boots as you walk ontop of it.
It literally is a giant clean up project of mother nature's mess.
@@greghamilton3830 are you just giving the idiot here or are you really one? :/
so MOTHER earth destroyed trees and boreal forests twice the size of ENGLAND?
get a map dude or just google map Alberta!
...hey cut the forests, mother nature is messing it up.... would laugh if its not so sad
@@moskito5864lol mother nature does destroy 1000 of sq km of forest every year with forest fires.
Fyi trees can and are planted after they mine an area.
And you forgot to answer no, you've never been there, you just Google pictures and figure u understand now.
There are soo many world threatning problems that need to be fixed at once, sometimes it just seems to be way to much for us to ever be able to fix it all :(
We are never, I repeat, never going to fix what lies in front of us. If you're having a terrible day today, cheer up, tomorrow will be a lot worse so enjoy today. Keep in mind one thing, the basis this world rests on is 'consumption' - without it there is nothing, and consumption is what is destroying a livable planet - wasn't too bad with 2 billion, 8 billion, not a chance!
@@richardnailhistorical3445 The extraction of oi out of the ground is cLeaning up a natural contamination site again this BS
As a proud Canadian....I'm disgusted by this! They're killing our land with zero regard for biological life, if it were up to me, I'd shut it down ASAP....besides, get this, although we are third on earth for oil, the fuel we use for our cars, isn't from Canada, it's imported at outrageous prices, while our oil goes to the USA, it's all so screwed up it makes we want to run away from Toronto and move up to the far north, and live off grid!
As a Canadian, you should go see for yourself instead of believing cult propaganda.
its funny cause you don't mention somehow the u.s owns it. as weird as it sounds alberta dose not even own its own oil fields
The company i worked for on the Kearl project was ''Kiewit'' American construction company.
Almost all the new oil development in Canada uses a technology called SAGD which isn't even mentioned in this video, no deforestation, no tailings ponds etc. All the environmentalists focus on the minority of developments that use these outdated methods and completely neglect to mention newer technological developments such as SAGD. The SAGD plant I work in is surrounded in boreal forest, forest full of wildlife, clean lakes and rivers. All you ever see in these videos is aerial footage of two big developments around Fort McMurray (Syncrude and Suncor) which use open pit mining. If footage was taken around where the majority of the development is occurring, you would see vast swaths of dense forest with the occasional small plant site visible. The plant I work in produces 35,000+ barrels of oil a day and has a foot print of about 2 square kilometers. I constantly hear attacks against the oil sands that are completely unfounded, and these people who blindly hate this industry should actually come visit plant sites, and truly explore northern Alberta instead of focusing solely on two individual plants and basing their opinion off a couple of misguided facts.
Good post.
Unfortunately, the mindless masses will flock to Hollywood for their answers. Or some folk singer...
+Lex Kosinski Wonderful post Lex. The media never shows the SAGD plants because they are similar to conventional drilling. This is because the Enviro Whackos would then lose all their funding.
Lex Kosinski as a born and need Albertan, and oil worker, I can attest to this. what a joke to label us as leaders in pollution when we have the highest safety and spill standards around. go look at how the state's does things if you want a real joke.
Although I welcome technology such as sagD in the oil industry, it's still not the most important issue. I completely agree with all your comments on how you know the oil sands natural polluted the Athabasca River and that by using massive open pit mines and tailings ponds are falling by the wayside and favor more environmentally friendly technology such a seg d, the reality is we are still just basically just destroying unpasseable and unproductive muskeg/bog and useless land that goes on for millions of unproductive snd largely uninhabited miles... so by this video focusing on these concerns definitely Over States the negative environmental impact by large degree but I think the key thing to keep in mind though is the implications on global temperatures when the sum total of all extractable oil from the tar Sands is put into the atmosphere. All of their arguments are kind of null and void because they're not the most significant issue and just served to detract from this fact. In 2018 I think it's safe to say the Glory Days of oil and fossil fuels are in the rearview mirror. As a lifelong resident of Alberta this saddens me, but it's also a huge opportunity if Alberta can accept this and pivot to newer more relevant Technologies rather than deluding ourselves through facade of denialism.. and interesting thing to keep in mind is that Alberta has some of the highest number of sunny days as a portion of the year relative to other parts of the country.. an interesting fact when put together with the new advancements arising solar technology. If we took her head out of the tar Sands and started making moves to be world leaders in this area.. we could retain our spot as a world leader in energy export but with all the corporate social responsibility one could ask for standing behind it which would put us in favor of many other fossil fuels and perhaps would even receive incentives from countries that prioritize clean energy rather than tariffs and burdens from countries that don't want dirty energy like we're experiencing in the EU.. unfortunately I find that the energy resource industry would rather propagate denialism due to the significant financial investment that has occurred around fossil fuels .. make no mistake I understand oil has a part to play in her future especially in the short-term so I think the real solution has to be a balance of both opportunities and the sooner Wiz albertans and Canadians recognize it the better off we will be . to further maintain fossil-fuel status quo which is neither socially economically environmentally responsible, is ultimately hurting us . And if we could develop mass of solar Farms that produce a ton of energy all this power can be exported with a very low carbon footprint after the panels themselves which I admit are very toxic to create, are implemented.
I'm from Canada and, although I didn't know all this about the situation I never really did like the whole concept and have always thought that Stephen Harper has been a pawn to much of the U.S.'s desires. The negotiations between Canada the the U.S. about the 'oil' sands, to me, have always seemed like the U.S. knows how to play the manipulation game on Canada. I can't recall all the reports I've heard on the matter but it always left a sour taste in my mouth and always got me feeling that we would be much better off pursuing alternative fuels/energy sources, especially when you consider the fact that the use of oil as a source of energy can't last forever.
Yeah because every Canadian politician who isn't starkly anti-American is just an American pawn to you insecure Canadian's.
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Yeah where do think all your fucking energy and fuel comes from it has to come from somewhere and everybody who is talking shit on here uses it one way or another if you don't like it throw all your shit away because it's made of oil and go live in the forest. Even to make this video they needed oil.
we are doomed as a human species...
No we're not, you're just a narrow-minded moron
+Rockets, RC Planes, More | HD Ya you think we're going to make it off this rock before our time comes. Not while greed and eco destruction continues.
We're not destroying the environment, we're doing every action we can to make it as clean as possible. And it quite pisses me off that these environmentalists think they can just shut down the carbon economy willy-nilly, when in reality that's one of the primary drivers of our economy.
Go clean your room.
Great news for Canadian s . We have been sending oil to the us since 1976 and have not recived a dollar for ot in return for military defense. The good news is were buying the refined gas from the us at profit. So were loosing on both ends ; 0)
No, an important bridge before fusion. While tar sands aren't as sexy as conventional oil fields with their huge crude gushers, and greasy oilmen, they have an important role to play.
Could anyone tell me what's the name of the background music from 1:15 to 1:52 please? Thank you 🙏💕
Years later, and we still need oil. Canadian oil is the best source, since they respect the environment, the land, communities, and each other. In Canada responsible development is the price of admission.
This is just horrible, it'll help nobody but the oil companies that use these reserves.
I don't know how old you, but just take a minute and look around you, most of what you see, and wear is an oil based product, EVERYTHING! So, I highly doubt that you would be willing to ditch all your conveniences, and just keep a shove as a tent pole for your potato sack tent!
I hate how they continously spill and they jus say "oops sorry, not our fault the high tech system failed, we cleaned it up dont worry!" Disgusting
This isn't going to stop no matter what anyone does.
Stranger things have happened.
feels like watching avatar all over again
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Thanks for the oil Canada! Keep up the good work!
I think they should just stop extraction of oil from ALL sources...
We cannot find an alternative energy source fast enough. . .
Deep Ocean Oil: Super destructive (Deepwater Horizon)
Tar Sands: Ultra destructive
Fracking: How could it get any more destructive than that?
Arctic Oil: ...oh right, they are going for that, too...
The biggest prolem that mankind has is greed. Sometimes I can only feel ashamed to be a human considering how we treat this planet.
***** No he babbles.
+Flavio Formigoni i actually don't
Global warming melting the polar ice caps sped up due to said oil extraction methods, flooding hundreds of areas, killing and displacing hundreds of millions of people, that's how much worse it can and will get if its not stopped soon, if it's not already too late that is.
Tj Devereaux Not going to happen. What is going to happen is the glaciers will come down past Toronto and we will all crowd around the equator to keep from freezing.
It's never too late to mature and stop listening to the alarmists.
You sir are a total moron
When you done with rubbishing CANADA, could you show us how VENEZUELA does it? Maybe we could learn from their methods...
Tar sands oil is not conventional oil, instead, a tar like substance that is mined rather then pumped to the surface of the earth. Then it must be upgraded and refined, before it can be burned. Mining and upgrading makes tar sands oil the dirtiest in the world, and is considered to be the most destructive industrial project on earth.
It's a disgusting example of wealth before health. Lots of people depend on the lands and water supplies for their daily living and way of life. I refer mainly to the First Nations people. They are simply expected to cope with all that the powers that be throw at them. It's grossly unfair. The lands were theirs before greed took over. Yet Harper and his side kicks hold them in total disregard. This destruction of land, and of people's way of life, needs to stop, before it's taken too far.
I'm a Canadian living in Vancouver, and an active participant in the protests against the Enbridge and Northern Gateway pipeline projects in British Columbia - here's a few things this video didn't mention about tar sands production.
It is true that Canada exports much of its oil to the US, but the REAL monster is China, who's demand for energy is going to go up A LOT in the coming decades. This means that our politicians on both sides of the spectrum will continue to blindly push legislation for resource development since China is basically willing to pay anything in order to switch to cleaner fuels than coal.
Our Conservative Government has also made it virtually impossible for legitimate Environmental assessments to be conducted on the tar sands, and also for any scientist to go public with his/her findings. In the Canadian media we refer to this as "Harper's muzzling of scientists". Our government can now say that there is no scientific evidence for any of the things discussed in the video.
Our Provincial Government (BC - Liberals) under Christy Clark are beginning construction on an even bigger project than the tar sands. BC plans to build fracking infrastructure in order to export liquid natural gas to energy-hungry markets in China. This project could release MORE THAN THREE TIMES the amount of C02 into the atmosphere than the tar sands does now.
I'm sorry to be telling you this, but the truth is, things are going to get worse...and were losing the battle on the homefront. The most I can hope to do is spread the info and hope that the rest of the world takes notice. Please help.
K.M St Pierre they should all be built. You’re a misinformed idiot.
LNG will replace coal-fired generating stations in China, resulting in far less GHG's & much cleaner emissions. True story.
I love the oil sands. Puts out good oil and natural gas
Consumes large quantities of clean gas.
People bitch about oil sands, then get into their SUV and drive to the corner store for a loaf of bread! This process is just like other strip mining projects! If u really care, stop driving and WaLK ! But don't be a hypocrite.
This video is ancient by now. As of 2023, the writing is on the wall for this industry. They may be riding high at the moment, but it's all on borrowed time.
The world is using vastly more fossil fuels than when this video was made. Production in the oil sands continues to rise. Virtuous demands are failing against reality.
The reality of things is that this does in fact cause contamination, but corporate greed is the driving force in all of this type of action. We have the ability to produce oil cheaper than ever, and consumption is rising, but big oil wants to establish its authority over natural resources. If you have inflicted your footprint on the environment then its much harder to be forced to stop. What we need is better watchdog groups that make spills known to the general public thru social media because the national media wont report on it. These companies file gag orders against people to keep the truth silent, but we need a grassroots effort to get videos out to youtube and get them to go viral to put the government in check. People have to take a proactive part in holding these companies feet to the fire.
Let me get this straight, it's bad for the OIL sands to cut down forests to excavate and then reclaim every square foot of land they dug up (which obviously crooked green peace won't show) but it's okay for big cities like Toronto to sprawl over the best farm land in Canada? People need to get their priorities straight
This is why I went there and saw first hand, unlike most canadians that get spoon fed information from these cult-like organizations. I have never seen so many animals than when I worked around the mac. Wolves, Caribou, Moose, Bears in harmony with our industry, and thriving.
While I agree with your premise, caribou in northern Alberta are protected, and need to be. What the activists ignore is the lengths and costs that energy companies absorb, to protect the caribou.
The SAG D operations are so clean its amazing. People have no clue.
www.pembina.org/blog/fifty-years-of-oilsands-equals-only-0-1-of-land-reclaimed
Butvygry find reclaim every square foot, do they. Notcl even remotely close
This can now be done cleanly with no pollution by a company in UTAH.
An environmental disaster the size of England & who will clean up after the process will cease making profits?
Good to see all the Libertarian oil company shills rush to this video to prove their idiocy once more.
Trans mountain pipeline just got approved by Trudeau, great news!
Well since the Earth is flat I don't have to worry about greenhouse gasses because they just flow off the edge of the flat Earth... Duh!
Largest profitable oil cleanup in the history of the universe, is what I say.
Another interesting video. How do you guys found out about all this stuff! Canada has always held quite nice reputation generally. Lovely nature and funny accents and other clichés but this sucks. Surely contaminating ground water is the deal breaker
Yes this is happening in Canada but it is not being done by Canadian companies. Most companies involved in the oilsands are owned by the USA, France, Thailand, Britain, Korea and China. Due to the billions these countries (and even their governments) put in they have been able to gain control of what regulations and laws get applied to the oilsands. Canada itself sees only a fraction of the revenue but gets left with all the environmental impact. If you think us Canadian citizens have not been protesting against this think again. Pubic opinion is for the majority against the oilsands but due to the contracts that the investing companies made there is very little we can actually do about.
karate4u American companies that give the Canadian politician's money, Plus the people working there that are destroying it remain ignorant because they are all well paid. Yay I get $35 an hour, I just have to turn a blind eye to the environment. Its that mindset that is making it worse.
I am a Canadian, and this is our story about the largest man made natural disaster in human history. I lived in Calgary Canada when the flock of geese died after landing, most Calgarians dismissed it, but some of us cried. The insensitivity to Nature is shared by the majority of Calgary's population making it a cold and callous place to live. So we moved!
GreenScore This is actually why people point and laugh at you guys. It is nowhere near "the largest man made natural disaster in human history"There are 13 oil fields just in the US alone that are dirtier. Not to mention shale and coal all dwarfing the oil sands in terms of damage to the environment."Researchers for California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard have recently
released new data measuring the carbon intensity of various crude oil
blends, including diluted bitumen (a.k.a. ‘dilbit’) and upgraded
synthetic crude oil (‘SCO’) from the Canadian oilsands. The Californian
findings will not be well-received by anti-oilsands activists.
Among the findings that may surprise:
• There are 13 oil fields in California, plus crude oil blends
originating in at least six other countries, that generate a higher
level of upstream greenhouse gas emissions than Canadian dilbit blends;
• Crude oil from Alaska’s North Slope, which makes up about 12 per
cent of California’s total crude slate, is actually “dirtier” than the
Canadian dilbit known as “Access Western Blend”;
• The “dirtiest oil in North America” is not produced in Canada, but
just outside Los Angeles, where the Placerita oil field generates about
twice the level of upstream emissions as Canadian oilsands production;
and
• The title of “world’s dirtiest oil” goes to Brass crude blend from
Nigeria, where the uncontrolled release of methane during the oil
extraction process generates upstream GHG emissions that are over
four times higher than Canadian dilbit."www.ipolitics.ca/2014/07/18/how-clean-is-our-dirty-oil-youd-be-surprised/
You're a narrow minded moron and I sure hope you read the first reply to your worthless piece of shit comment
"When the flock of geese died after landing" what the fuck are you talking about? Most Calgarian's care about nature. Calgary is easily one of the friendliest big cities I have been to. You literally moved because you just decided that the majority are insensitive to nature, therefore it's a cold and callous place to live? I really hope you now live in some "environmentally conscious" place like Vancouver where saying hi to strangers is socially inappropriate.
Love my Country...Ashamed of my Government. Canada does not need to get rid of its deficit THAT badly.
In addition to being the world's most polluting source of oil, these are also the least economic. Tar Sands oil is the most expensive oil in the world to produce, and because it is the least desirable source of petroleum, the world price for bitumen is lower than any other oil. Why does this industry exist in the first place? Massively large government subsidies from the conventional oil industry, to the tune of $300 billion dollars set this industry up. However, Canada's conventional oil is almost all used up, with the result that the subsidies are drying up and the province of Alberta is going broke, trying to prop up the Tar Sands industry, with the last few billion dollars they can borrow
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it is way cleaner than Iraqi and Saudi oil, I'll tell you that, and if its gone so is our economy!
Hahaha I work there. Transalta. I've seen these ponds. There HUGE! Its crazy seeing the land around there.. I swear it looks like hell. Honestly. If you seen it.. you would know what I'm talking about. It looks horrible. There's big sound horns that blast off the sound of a gun shot. Sounds like a riffle to be honest. It keeps the birds from landing in the ponds. BUT believe me they still seem to land in the water. I've seen afew dead ducks in the ponds. Its a site you wouldn't want to see....
OH AND THE MONEYS GOOD!!! No kidding
Raymo Cruz ...Hope that you get laid off...people
Ike you are destroying the Earth...👎👎👎
It's called "Fort McDirty", and "Fort McCancer" for a reason.
A horrible mess left in the search for profits that will cost the Earth.
You disappoint me Canada! :(
i dont even know why Harper keeps getting re-elected... im canadian and hate alot of of stuff happening here =(
YOU disappoint me
MACK China produces most of the worlds pollution and you are disappointed in Canada?
lots of Canadians hate the tar sands it's an embarrassment
So dispite what you hear the oilsands are very very clean it looks dirty because it's a pit mine. We don't frack and pump shit into the water like most oil extraction in the world it is also one of the cleanist oil extraction. Every bit of land taken out is replaced by a massive reclemation project. As well they have raised a bison heard from I think it 37 to more than 300. They live and thrive on reclaimed land
I SWEAR I WILL RAGE IF THOSE MUCH WATER FOWLS DIE AGAIN. (sorry, i am a bird lover).
No need to apologize! I’m on the same page! It’s crazy this comment only has 4 likes.
Goes to show where people’s thoughts lie.
A true feminist
I hope all the birds die
I LOVE birds. Alberta thinks their employment problems are unique.
It has happened in every province, yet other workers retrained and found new jobs, that don't kill birds.
Alberta ppl say crap like "I will do this or nothing"?
You obviously haven't been to a lithium mine lol
Fact check: she quotes at 2:29 that we produce 1.9 million barrels of oil from the oil sands a day. Than at 3:30 she quotes we send 2.6 million barrels of oil a day to the United States. I do realize that we use more than just the oil sands for oil production, but these should be specified in order to properly communicate facts. Although I do not know the validity of the quoted facts 1.9 m.b.d. from the oil sands is clearly less than the 2.6 m.b.d. we send to the US.
OIL=DOLLARS+DEAD PLANET!
If you're going to tell the story, you need to tell the whole story.
Oil has been seeping out of the ground here into the river long before humans ever walked the earth.
It is not our fault natives settled on this land washed by the river which helps to flow the seeping oil. These natives which are complaining of the oils toxic effects are in fact practicing their age old tradition of dying from it (before the white man arrived)
The oil sands are in fact the worlds largest clean up of leaking oil.
If Canada's oil sands companies were to shut down. This oil would still be leaking into the rivers and waters as it always has.
Environmentalists need to shut their mouths and learn about what they are speaking about.
And if they don't want Canadian oil....they can stop fucking buying it.
And soon hopefully we;ll be selling a lot less to America as we are opening a new market to China, In 20yrs Americans won't be able to shut up about paying $15 a gallon.
3 times more greenhouse gas is nothing and all the other effects seemed rather vague or with out significant effect compared to economical impact this has on Canada.
300 rigs down and some want to invest in the most destructive energy possible .
Here in 2021 thanks for Keystone XL. Never realized how destructive this process was
What’s so destructive about a pipeline being dug from Canada to Texas in the US?? Is having more money in your pocket to spend on your family rather than a gas station destructive?
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i work in the oil sands and i will say that they can be bad, but unfortunately we need them to provide for the life style that we live. If there was a viable option then I would be all for using it but at this time there is not. Also if the oil sands were to be shut down Alberta's and quite possibly Canada's economy would flat line instantly
That's because big oil industry is the social economic hard drug. When the oil booms everyone is high but when the oil busts the withdrawl symptoms are horrendous. Big oil has reduced the Alberta economy to being a one trick pony.
actual oil consumption : 93 250 000 baril of crude oil per day. (numbers are from 2010. it's bigger now)
170 200 000 000 divided by 93 250 000 barils per day = 1825 day of oil.
11% of the reserve of the world amount to 5 years of consumption. Assuming that it stay as the number stated, who are already 4 years old and thus lower than reality. Add also that consumption grows and thus it's far less than five years.
Now extend the numbers. If 11% = 170 200 000 000 then 100% = 1 547 272 727 272 barils of crude oil on earth. At best.
In the best scenario, we have 45 years left before we run out of oil.