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Originally Posted by photon
Yup, every single person on this forum goes out and personally kills a tree every day so that they can exploit the land some more.  Nice generalization.
And somehow Alberta burns all those resources in its own borders and get rich. Amazing.
Most of those resources are exported to other provinces and other countries, and they are burned there. The problem isn't production, it's consumption. Production simply meets the demands that are there.
If Alberta stopped producing oil and gas tomorrow, somehow magically the world's consumption will decrease? |
No, but because of the extra energy needed to melt the bitumen and separate it from the sand and because of emissions from the upgrading process, production of a barrel of synthetic crude oil from oil sands generates, on average, more than three times more GHG emissions than production of a barrel of conventional oil.