Canada's Dirty Oil: breaking our addiction

Canada's Alberta tar sands produces the world's dirtiest, most expensive, and dangerous fossil fuel. Locked up in sand and clay, extracting tar sands crude consumes 3 barrels of water per barrel of bitumen produced, produces 5 times the greenhouse gases of "normal" crude oil, and leaches enormous volumes of toxics into North America's second largest watershed.

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[LunaticFringeHunter]

@johnBolenbaugh Well, apparently it did not kill you soon enough to suit me, but I'll settle for you having a stroke from typing in all caps, you moron. If more people like you would just ride a bicycle and wear a beanie with a solar powered propeller on top, the world would be a happier, cleaner place. : )

[johnBolenbaugh]

@quebecois12345 I AM AN UNEMPLOYED OIL WORKER AND FORMER FOREMAN ON THE FIRST KEYSTONE PIPELINE AND A FORMER YARD BOSS FOR THE LARGEST TAR SAND OIL SPILL IN AMERICAN HISTORY. I SUPPORT OIL BUT I WILL NEVER WORK FOR A TAR SAND JOB AGAIN BECAUSE IT IS KILLING MY COMMUNITY. IT KILLED OVER 40 MILES OF FISH IN OUR RIVER AND THOUSANDS OF ANIMALS. WATCH (JOHN BOLENBAUGH ENBRIDGE KILLS US ONE BY ONE AND THEN PLEASE RE THINK YOUR OPINION. AMERICA DOESN'T WANT THIS PIPELINE.

[DBMScorchy]

This video calls it "Oil Sands". They are NOT "Oil Sands", they are "Tar Sands". That is why solvents are required to transport it. It is also why the ratio of energy out to energy in is a dismal 3:1.

Despite record profits, big oil receives billions of dollars in subsidies to use natural gas to recover the bitumen tar. The tar must then be processed into crude. We are only using this as a source of energy because we are becoming desperate.

[LunaticFringeHunter]

@johnBolenbaugh  <--- Pussy-ass wanker

[waynewin]

A few basic facts are true - the oilsands are in Alberta and was put there by Nature. Most of the rest of the story is inaccurate or outright lies. No Albertan would allow this development if the damage was as vast as reported. Mining is a dirty business but no one seem to talk about the hundreds of open pit coal and other mines in the US which pollute 1,000 times more than the oilsands. Support the green revolution but the US needs the oil until you get there.

[LunaticFringeHunter]

I wonder if it has ever occured to you room temperature IQ little Orcs who wail and wring your hands over the aerial views of the tar sands properties,  to do some research on what an aerial view of the lead mines ( and resulting pollution ) looks like, you know, for those "clean" electric Barbie Doll cars? Nah, stick with one-dimensional thinking...it suits you better and it's infinitely easier.

[DaniellesCBR]

@LunaticFringeHunter hehehe i just had a mental image of @JohnBolenbaugh with a beanie with solar powered propeller on top. thats funny

[doyle30]

@johnBolenbaugh well thats illegal, thats not how industry works

[johnBolenbaugh]

@johnBolenbaugh You are right again about Americas money going down, But we at least dont want the dirtiest oil in the world running even more through our country than it already is. Even Canada doesnt want the northern gateway pipeline and my videos are the biggest evidence right now against it. It has been 9 yrs and still no approval for it through Canada because your residents dont want it and neither do we. Sure you want more pipe and more spills because you make $ selling cleaning equipment

[doyle30]

@johnBolenbaugh once again gas sinks, well thats capitalism, what you county is built on. your dollar will collapse in the next 15 years anyways. you guys are fucked with your debt exceeding your yearly gdp this year. good riddance america