About the Alberta Oil Sands

Located in Western Canada, Alberta is a province rich with a beautiful environment, abundant natural resources, a strong economy and a stable political system. Oil sands are located in three major areas in northeast Alberta underlying 140,200 square kilometres.

Learn more about the region, resource, economic and investment, and the people behind the Alberta oil sands at http://oilsands.alberta.ca.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• oil sands
• tar sands
• Alberta
• environment
• natural resources
• oil
• bitumen

[Pintoz31]

Greenpeace get over yourself please. Stop being a bunch of hippies and start worrying about how you can work along side these companies in order to aid in creating more efficient, environmentally friendly ways for these productions to occur. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but your little rallies aren't going to stop any of this from occurring!

[bin1127]

The argument against oil sands is important but altogether still constitutes only part of the entire cycle of fossil fuel consumption. We burn fossil fuel, we harm our health directly. To argue for fossil fuel development on economic grounds while ignoring the direct harm to our health is truly baffling.

[sarahelizabethe1]

@dargon8999 maybe you should consider some grammar lessons before you argue something you clearly don't know much about.

You really think that you know more about this issue that Greenpeace does?

[zorimel]

@dargon8999 this system polutes the water and air not to mention they have spills too, thousands of birds have died from landing into lakes and ponds where the company has had accidents. People choose to join the army. WE HAVE A CHOICE, the animals and environment do not.

[Andreloification]

propaganda



[Iliketoheadbanggg]

Ya this seems like a good idea for the future...With population increase our dependency on oil will just continue to grow and grow and with that we'll just have to keep clearing the land, killing the animals, sucking up the water and poisoning the air. We don't need those things..right!? Oil is way more valuable then our natural resources, the future generations will thank us for this sustainable plan

[WolvesAREawesome17]

@noftchks1 but without the suicide bombings and roadside bombs

[acafellablue]

Just like the wiping out of the Buffalo. google "fort chip". "Canary in the coal mine." Fueling the usa's war machine. How many lives lost in that war, how many people are getting sick and dying on Native reserves from Cancers, auto immune diseases, lupus,, skin rashes, rheumatoid arthritis, and various other forms of cancers. America does not want China getting it's hands on this oil. No reason for a Rocky Mntn pipeline to the Pacific.Living for today and letting tomorrow take care of itself.

[dargon8999]

Greenpeace needs to research something before they stab at a safe place to get oil.

My best example is if their is no Alberta Oil sands, we'd be send the oil men through the chaos of the other oil resources, places where their war zones.

So Green Peace... Do you want bloodshed over oil? Or STFU about this and worry about something that's actually big like the Toxic spill, or cleaning the oil spill?

[Ferley88]

alberta forever. WE CANNOT BE STOPPED green peace is just mad because t heir supporters (imported oil) is threatend by our 1.7 trillion ( thats 1.7 trillion imported oil companies cannot make profit off of)