Alberta Energy Regulator's recently released water usage report shows the amount of freshwater needed to mine a barrel of tar sands crude increased by 1.8% from 2022 to 2023.
And at least half of the population of this province want this situation to continue....to the end of time if necessary. Our assumptions about endless growth, coupled with our obstinate determination to ignore limits of any form, is leading us where???
Alberta may be calling......but if Andrew Nikiforuk is right in his estimates that Alberta only has 2% of Canada's potable water, not even Donald Trump will have much to suck up with his fantasy hose.......going forward.
If water is life, the industry poisoning it big time has to be what???
“You're seeing a lack of transparency, or maybe even dishonesty, out of the regulator by just saying that there are improvements while the oil sands are actually increasing water use intensity,” These people think we can't do arithmetic. Thanks, Jeremy for bringing this to our attention.
We need to keep in mind that all this water use is to facilitate the extraction of tar which will be shipped to foreign buyers. The scope three emissions from burning the stuff then gets counted as an emission from the country in which it is burned. We're exporting GHGs.
And at least half of the population of this province want this situation to continue....to the end of time if necessary. Our assumptions about endless growth, coupled with our obstinate determination to ignore limits of any form, is leading us where???
Alberta may be calling......but if Andrew Nikiforuk is right in his estimates that Alberta only has 2% of Canada's potable water, not even Donald Trump will have much to suck up with his fantasy hose.......going forward.
If water is life, the industry poisoning it big time has to be what???
“You're seeing a lack of transparency, or maybe even dishonesty, out of the regulator by just saying that there are improvements while the oil sands are actually increasing water use intensity,” These people think we can't do arithmetic. Thanks, Jeremy for bringing this to our attention.
We need to keep in mind that all this water use is to facilitate the extraction of tar which will be shipped to foreign buyers. The scope three emissions from burning the stuff then gets counted as an emission from the country in which it is burned. We're exporting GHGs.