Athabasca Oil Sands

to the BP oil spill, Lance Duerfahrd notes how Burtynsky’s photography encourages viewers “to become art historians” by way of “abstraction” (Duerfahrd 126). “Bitumen” also asks this of its readers by situating Burtynsky’s photography within the tradition of the sublime, while it also compels scrutiny of the “anaesthetics” and abstraction at work in Burtynsky’s OIL. In the following passage, the poem describes “Burtynsky’s drone helicopters” and the photographs of the Alberta Oil Sands he is…

Oil is a very important part in our live. But some people don't even acknowledge this. People want more and more oil. Canadians uses twice as much oil then ever. In 1980 people use nearly 1.8 million gallons but now they use nearly 3 million gallons. This is big. Canadians can be affected by this. People are demanding more oil some people are making pipe line this is a huge problem. This can spring a leak and the oil will go into your drinking water and can give you cancer. This is why I am on…

Pipeline to Import Tar Sand Oil from Canada, it talks about how, "Indigenous peoples (known as First Nations) in Canada are taking the lead to stop the largest industrial project on Mother Earth: the Tar Sands Gig project. Northern Alberta is ground zero with over 20 corporations operating in the tar sands sacrifice zone, with expanded developments being planned. The cultural heritage, land, ecosystems and human health of First Nation communities... are being sacrificed for oil money in what has…

of the global economy, the world 's demand for oil continues to increase. When conventional oil resources cannot meet the rapid growth of oil demand, people turn their attention to unconventional oil resources, which is an important source of oil sands. By the sand, asphalt, mineral, clay and water in five parts of the oil sands is a kind of unconventional oil resources. It is distributed widely, and is rich in resources. At present, the world oil sand technology is known to be about 1035.1…

challenges that the Oil Sands Industries of Alberta and other locations in the world face today. Tailing Ponds can be described as large “dump holes” in which the industry exposes of all the waste materials obtained from the refinement of Bitumen - a raw material which can be processed into oil. Tailing Ponds include many different types of waste materials such as water, fine silts, residual bitumen, salts and soluble organic compounds. They also include solvents that are added to the oil sands…

The difficulty of mining oil sands varies depending on the location of the oil sands. Oil sands deposits that are less than about 250 feet below the surface can be removed using conventional strip-mining methods. The strip-mining process includes removal of the overburden, excavation of the resource, and transportation to a processing facility. Nearly all mined bitumen is currently upgraded to synthetic crude oil. Oil sands extraction processes are generally divided into two categories: mining…

conventional oil, over the past few years, unconventional forms of oil including oil sands have become a great global provider of energy. Oil sands - also known as tar sands - are mixtures of sand, water, clay and bitumen. With the largest deposit located in Canada, tar sands are found in several places around the globe, including Venezuela, the United States, and Russia (Rudzinski, n.d). Through open-pit mining and in-situ, tar sands are mined and then processed and changed to crude oil and…

2005). Applying this definition to their business model, Enbridge was able to unlock the true value of globalization and has astronomically increased their growth. In an article about how Enbridge is looking to increase the production of oil sands it says, “…oil sands…

our need for crude oil is a backward concept, as we should be working toward a clean renewable energy source. Our current reliance on crude oil has us in a panic to find ways to obtain this crude oil with cheaper and easier methods. The Keystone XL Pipeline Plan will not be a cheap and easy way to obtain more fossil fuel and it will cause more damage to our environment and climate as well as harm our safety and economy. In 2005 of a plan for a pipeline for transporting tar sands from Alberta…

hundred of these people have died from cancer caused by tar sands oil, an oil carried downstream from them that is proposed to be used in the Keystone pipeline. Not only have they died from the harmful oil but they have had side effects such as; heart and respiratory conditions, skin issues and nervous system disorders(treehugger).These innocent people can no longer carry on their valuable cultural traditions because of the pollution from an oil pipeline(Friends Of Earth). These problems won't…