ENVIRSC 2EI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Water Pollution
6 Feb 2017
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Engineering wonder, one of the largest oil reserves, 70% exported to usa. 50% of crude oil comes from oil sands. Cut the us right out of it, let them worry about their own energy. Deep: steam to liquefy oil piped underground and then is pumped to the surface. Carbon dioxide emissions (largest single producer of greenhouse gases in. All the natural gas used by the oil sands could heat the homes of the entire population of canada (cid:498)boomtown(cid:499), development of the city. Oppose new oil sands projects because of the impact on water whatever happens upstream can affect communities all the way downstream. All coastlines near the spill were impacted (fisheries, tourism. No one knows who it actually belongs to, the usa or canada. Minimizing impacts of oil spills is pretty much impossible.
