Which Kill More Birds, Oil Sands or Wind Turbines?

A video produced by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy's Smart Green Project (www.fcpp.org)

ERRATUM: It has been pointed out that this video implies the Wolfe Island Wind Farm was operational in 2008, it was not, the figures in the video are from 2009. Frontier regrets the error.

ERRATUM 2: A viewer writes that the calculations should have deducted some energy from the oil sands production to account for energy used to produce oil, and should have accounted for energy from all Canadian Oil sands rather than just those controlled by Syncrude. If you accept these claims, and they are debatable (the bird deaths happened on Syncrude's tailing ponds), the overall message of the video is unchanged except that the greater energy output figure from including more oil sands overwhelms the reduction in energy caused by allowing for recovery, altogether making the oil sands look better still.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• FCPP
• oil
• sands
• birds
• wind
• turbines
• environment
• green
• canada
• alberta
• frontier
• centre

[russianteapot]

Haha, love it!

[Politicimo]

@djanheuser I would highly recommend the book "Ethical Oil" by Ezra Levant. The oil sands aren't perfect, but in terms of the ethics involved using liberal criteria, such as treatment of workers, where the money goes, treatment of minorities and the environment etc., Alberta's oil sands are far superior than oil coming from anywhere in Africa or the Middle East.

Sure, let's put research into a future fantasy fuel, but until it arrives, people are going to use the internal combustion engine.

[youngchampagne]

Your vid went viral on Kuala Lumpur

[ohnniehickm24j]

Your video is a favorite on Chad

[ruralgrubby]

The biggest point missed, we don't use oil for electrical generation and no matter how many turbines you put up, it will never reduce the need for oil.

[Heteroz]

migrating birds land in the waste ponds, dive and never return to the surface

[Sandyman7]

i'm so confused...... this is gonna sound dumb but is that a real bird getting hit by the wind turbine?

[hopeurforfreedom]

@lee8264 My kids will soon be old enough to do a little panning, but water is damned cold, even with gloves. One day, I hope to have an ounce. Just goes to show, never discount a crazy. Those Yukon folks, God Bless em'.

[hopeurforfreedom]

@lee8264 1/2 ounce nugget, those are pretty damned rare.