GPHY 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Transcanada Pipeline, The Takeaway, Biofuel
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Find paper on topic of interest, bio fuel, bio energy, energy sector, social license. Critique the paper, talk about the topic, method, analysis way they presented their results. Production: (not including imports, energy comes primarily from alberta and saskatchewan, type of oil is not necessarily the same conventional oil from liquid underground reservoirs (black liquid) Saudi arabia & iraq have access to liquid oil. In newfoundland the conventional oil is undersea (under the grand banks continental shelf) Sand deposits soaked with oil, looks like asphalt. Use a lot of energy to get it out of the ground. Exports and transfers: (crude oil, not refined product) infrastructure, primarily by pipelines, network centered on edmonton, pipelines leak, seem to be leaking increasingly. Prices are very high and volatile global supplies are tight (but this may change) Japanese innovated smaller and more efficient cars: military came from the 1970"s when the americans grew their fleet in order to protect tanker routes.
