Analysis of the Main Environmental Impacts of the Oil.
Tar Sands in Alberta His articles has a bias and is written in a pessimistic tone against the tar sands, but is justified with concrete evidence. The tar sands in Alberta are land masses that are being mined for large deposits of bitumen and crude oil causing a colossal environmental controversy.Due to the unequal global distribution of oil deposits, the Alberta Oil Sands has a high value in the world market. In fact, the oil sands make Canada a leading nation on the world energy market. The prosperity if Canada also generates in more subtle ways.Oil sands in an area of Alberta are one of the largest oil reserves in the world, so recently the industry is actively developing. Production in Alberta region has important economic and social impacts for the region, and one of the most important negative influences are environmental problems.
Canada's oil sands are the largest deposit of crude oil on the planet. The oil sands or tar sands, are a mixture of sand, water, clay and a type of oil called bitumen. Thanks to innovation and technology we can recover oil from the oil sands, providing energy security for the future.With the recent events that have been taking place around the world like that of Libya, the demand has risen even further for the oil from the Tar Sands of Alberta. Increased oil prices have helped boost the Canadian Economy as a whole because of the Tar Sands operations. Alberta itself accounts for 95 percent of Canada’s total oil reserves.
Northern Alberta’s oil sands are increasingly becoming a source of political conflict, both domestically and globally, as scrutiny of the world’s second-largest known oil reserve intensifies. While recent production in the oil sands has driven rapid economic growth in Alberta, there is increasing concern that this growth is causing unprecedented ecological harm.
