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Originally Posted by jaydorn
I have a question that I'm hoping some of the O&G guys can answer for me. Is the oil coming out of the earth in other parts of the world any less impactful/cleaner for the environment at the end of the day?
I understand the oil sands by their very nature require more earth being moved & more resources to separate the wheat from the chaff so to speak. But is the after effects that much worse than other oil producing areas of the world?
Would Neil and his gang be able look at the after effects of a plant in say Russia or Saudi Arabia and say "See the environment here is in much better shape than Alberta's oil sands! There's a better way!"
I have no real agenda with this question, I'm just curious as to how our "dirty oil" stacks up when compared to traditional production/extraction.
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Here is the report from the Royal Society of Engineers which was done independently. They have been asked to review some portions of the study as the data they used was apparently not current. They are currently undertaking to do that.
http://rsc-src.ca/sites/default/file...0_FINAL_v5.pdf
Here is I think your answer.
Is the oil sands industry the most environmentally destructive project on earth, as has been suggested by some media and declared critics of the industry?
Based on our review of the publicly accessible evidence, a claim of such global magnitude is not accurate. Despite the lack of evidence to support this
particular view, it has gained considerable traction with the media and it now pervades the internet. This depiction is clearly aided by the photographs of ugly surface-mined landscapes, but the claims of global supremacy for oil sands environmental impacts do not accord with any credible quantitative evidence of environmental damage