It’s the largest #bitumen deposit in the world. #Mining there is visible from space. And for many #Canadians, the oilsands are still completely unseen.
This is the oilsands — the home of billions of barrels of tarry #CrudeOil that lies under 142,000 square kilometres of northern Alberta, driving the local economy and bolstering provincial budgets.
“Now is when these companies are still making massive, massive, massive #profits. And they must be forced to use the profits, to use the revenues, to clean up their mess now.”
“Alberta's #oilsands operations produce far more potentially harmful #AirPollutants than are officially reported, with the daily output on par with those from gridlocked megacities like Los Angeles..
measured concentrations of organic carbon emissions in the air by flying overhead and taking samples.
The researchers found levels that were between 20 and 64 times higher than those reported by industry”
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Here's the link to the original research to save others time looking.
He M, Ditto JC, Gardner L, Machesky J, Hass-Mitchell TN, Chen C, et al. Total organic carbon measurements reveal major gaps in petrochemical emissions reporting. Science 2024;383:426–32. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adj6233.
As severe Alberta drought looms, fracking consumes huge volumes of water — forever
“Although the oilsands consume the vast majority of all water used by the oil and gas industry in Alberta, fracking has grown ever-thirstier over the past decade — and the water it uses is gone from the water cycle for good.” #Fracking#Oilsands#Water#Canada#cdnpoli
#Canada: 53 million tonnes CO2 cut from 2005 levels, 251 million tonnes to go by 2030. #CarbonPricing led to between one-third and one-half of total emissions cuts. But
"The oil and gas sector contributed almost one-third of Canada's emissions in 2022, and transportation contributed about one-fifth. Emissions from the #oilsands in Alberta were almost 2.5 times higher in 2022 than in 2005, and contributed 12 per cent of Canada's total."
A major Canadian oil sands group has been running advertisements on Google that target people seeking information about oil industry “greenwashing,” the practice by which companies make false and misleading environmental promises.