Too Much Energy Used to Mine, Move Bitumen Says BC Firm
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The ooip has many nasties 'attached' to it in its natural state... The only way for 'added' chemicals to get into the equation is via the refining process and for that to get into the water system and cause disease would require an ongoing practice of dumping into the river system... That simply is not happening
Oh, I get it. There are no elements that come from the refining/upgrading process that are getting into the river. Never have been, never will be.
That's good to know, it's nice to have this cleared up.
That's good to know, it's nice to have this cleared up.
Emissions from the downstream processing of the ore fall out, this is not exactly unconventional knowledge. If you read the link provided, you'd see that they are finding toxic chemicals released during this processing, with the expected patterns of concentration from industrial fallout from stack emissions.
And as far as disease goes, it doesn't really matter how the compounds get into the river system. Use whatever euphemism you like, the process adds toxic chemicals to the watershed.
An answer came from Ottawa this week. There is a price tag already to address the issue. Though none of the managers are shirking their responsibilities by pointing out someone elses problem. Has any of the companies in the patch even cost out a solution to the findings? Hmmm?
Last week? WOW. That's amazing considering there has been raw sewage dumped into the oceans for how many decades? Why is Ottawa having to step in?
Has anything been done since the Athabasca/NRBS conclusion in 2002? You bet!
Has anything been done since the Athabasca/NRBS conclusion in 2002? You bet!
Quite a few decades. How long has fallout been falling on the ground in Athabasca and running into the watershed? Ottawa also funded the carbon sequestration project in Saskatchewan. Ottawa also funds projects to clean up the operations in Athabasca.
I don't pay much attention to things said by people who believe you cannot pump refined products through a pipeline.
I'm thinking more than a few decades, there has been human waste produced from this area for a few hundred years.
As for Athabasca, the oil co.s are spending big money to deal with the issue since day 1... Can PEI say the same?
Do you know why?
A 45% redcution in emission and effluent discharge since the 90s (even after a massive expansions) was funded by who? Botswanans?
I wonder what the tax revenues are that the CRA collects from the PEI sewage treatment facilities?
Oh, that's right - they really don't have those, do they...
Maybe PEI gets some of the $40 million paid out by oil companies into the Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund?
Who woulda thunk that PEI's emissions were such a direct cause of global warming... Hell, to just qualify for federal monies.
What the hell are you folks eating out there Tonington?
They aren't eating shellfish from the Charlottetown region that's for sure.
I don't know the exact figure. I assumed it's been multiple, not being from the area.
Ahh, turns out it hasn't been that long. It's only in the past couple years that untreated sewage has been overflowing when there is heavy precipitation, after a few lines were merged.
Which issue? The toxic emissions are still falling out and running into the watershed.
I suspect what you find priceless is quite different than what I find priceless. Let's hear why you find it priceless.
Which emissions? I'd like to see that.