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Originally Posted by Flame On
Here we go.
There's no excuse for toxic lakes with large quantaties of wild life death. Certainly not for the excuse that Syncrude uses which is "it was wintery". BS.
Wether you're right wing, daddy works in the oil patch, you work in the oil patch or industry you should be able to agree that the death lakes you can see from space are a bit of a blight.
I don't care if the extraction process is different. What other industry is allowed to figure out how to deal with it's waste material later down the road?
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Nuclear, most form of mining, hell people dump a crap pile of trash away everyday. It doesnt just disappear once it goes in the earth. Tailings ponds arent unique to the oilsand. Theres no doubt they are unsightly, but when the counter measures are working they do a fair good job. Personally I am not a fan of the strip mining, I work on a SAGD project and we don't have tailings ponds or massive amounts of toxic waste. Our project recycles the production water and uses the excess steam to run a cogeneration unit. IMO its a much less destructive way to access the oil. It still produces are fair amount of CO2 but eventually that will be sequestered in the ground once carbon capturing is introduced.