POL250Y5 Lecture Notes - Nuclear Weapon, Turnitin, Campaign Finance Reform In The United States
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Essay due 9:10 am on thursday october 17th. 1 in quebec using nukes to get bitumen: idea is to detonate a nuclear bomb in the tar sands to melt the bitumen and make it easier. Prime minister harper is for the idea; as is france"s avera. By 2020, we"ll probably be using nuclear power in the tar sands. Station is at the university of saskatchewan + being funded by the japanese. Pros of green bitumen [nuclear tar sands] : Help canada meet climate targets (by 2020, our target is to have 17% less than 2005 levels of greenhouse gas emissions) We have a lot of nuclear potential. Less of a market for radio active oil. Keeping our nuclear potential to ourselves alberta"s remaining proven oil reserves are 170. 8 billion barrels (169. 3 billion barrels in the oil sands) or about 13% of total global oil reserves.
