Oil Sands

A Deeper look at the XL pipeline and Oil Sands issue:


  The US State Department is key in allowing new pipelines to be built across Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.  These pipelines can leak and boost petroleum supplies adding to global climate change.
   Tar sands derived crude oil is just another desperate attempt to prolong  destructive worldwide petroleum madness and addiction. What are the issues?
   The Canadian oil industry has an excess capacity beyond its ability to export.  They need the United States to allow a large capacity pipeline to sell the surpluses they, Canadian oil, are holding. The value of their oil is lower than world market prices simply because there is no way to transport it in the quantities needed.  One market example, the Chinese oil company Sinopec Oil Sands Partnership, owns 9.03% of the Syncrude Project. http://www.cdnoilsands.com/operations/syncrude-project-at-a-glance/default.aspx  Go to the Canadian Oil Sands website yourself and study the destructive impact: http://www.cdnoilsands.com/operations/ProductionProcess/default.aspx
    For every barrel of crude oil it takes two barrels of “imported” water.  That is, water that must be added to huge quantities of recycled water used in extracting oil from sand.    Canadian Oil Sands boasts on its website  that it has reclaimed 3,500 hectares (only 3% of total leased land).  Is this typical of oil and gas companies: pathetic land reclamation and water destruction?
   Let's get on track with Germany, and put solar panels on every rooftop. Stop wasting money cleaning up after the mess that petroleum fuel causes.  Spend that money to convert to solar.  And no, natural gas is not a bridge to anything except more destructive drilling, fracking, and water pollution.