Bitumen

morning, revisiting the data I had previously read, but with a fresh perspective. The Conroy house was in a respectable part of town and the back garden sloped down toward the Cold Mountain River. The yard was fenced off, and on the other side was a bitumen walkway, which meandered along the river’s edge. The fence didn’t have a gate, nor any access to the river or pathway. The high roughhewn structure with…

produced 52 million cubic meters of Bitumen (a combination of sand, clay and water, it is extremely dense and must be processed…

In order to illustrate how fracking works, jets shoot fracking fluid, which is a mixture of sand, water, and hundreds of chemicals, into the drilled hole to create cracks in the shale. The fracking fluid breaks down the shale releasing the oil, which gets pumped back up to be treated. Most of the fracking chemicals are undisclosed by fracking companies and could be potentially harmful; can be performed in a vertical oil well, as well as into shale and tar sands (Walsh). When mining deeper oil…

Type of Existing Commercial Roof The existing roofing materials will need to be removed before the new roof can be applied. Some roofing materials are more difficult to remove and require additional labor. For example, a built-up roof or modified bitumen roof usually…

The Keystone XL: A Multi-layered Policy Issue The Keystone XL, a pipeline purposed by TransCanada Keystone Pipeline would carry Canadian crude oil to American refineries. “A new study by the consulting firm IHS found that most of the oil transported through the pipeline would be refined and consumed within the U.S” . The company primarily responsible for the project has made several major adjustments to its original plan to make it more conducive to the wishes of pipeline opponents. The…

there are inherent risks associated with this pipeline or the transportation of oil and bitumen through the first nation territories without consent as it may pose threat to the soils and the drinking water. Therefore, it is agreed that the Ojibwa first nation has not been adequately consulted in the past and hence there shall always be face-to-face consultations as far as the transportation of oils and bitumen is concerned. It is agreed that the stated first nation shall apply their utmost…

says next even worse. Noonuccal describes the tree as being ‘Like that poor cart-horse Castrated, broken, a thing wronged, Strapped and buckled, its hell prolonged’, how the tree is living in ‘hopelessness’ and set in a square of ‘black grass of bitumen’, rather than the ‘cool world of leafy forest halls and wild bird calls’ to which it belongs. This description serves as a severe juxtaposition of what should be to what is the unfortunate reality. Her use of rhyme of ‘wronged’ and ‘prolonged’…

explaining Canada’s contribution to green house emissions and acid rain when they were once a global leader against such pollutions. Nikiforuk compares Canada as being second worst for climate change next to Saudi Arabia since they started using bitumen. He highlights the politics surrounding the issues and includes the impact of the tar sands on public policy by stating that Canada no longer has a policy on climate change and have abandoned their targets. He goes on to include Prime Minister…

viscous hydrocarbon called bitumen that can be converted to oil” (Tenenbaum 2009, p. 151). The former “Alberta Energy and Utilities Board estimated the amount of recoverable oil in Canada’s oil sands at 175 billion barrels, second only to Saudi Arabia’s reserves” (Tenenbaum 2009, p. 151). There are two main methods of extraction involved in oil sands operations: Surface mining (~55% of current production) is used in shallow oil sands reserves using open-pit mines where the bitumen is then…

Another factor to consider is the boom in petroleum-based commodities of the last decade, and the role that oil companies such as Petro-Canada plays from an environmental perspective. With the rapid expansions in petroleum comes many impacts to the environment as well as to society as a whole. There has been shifting economic landscape and government regulations to control the boom in this period. The world is dependent on fossil fuels for 80 percent of its energy, but at the same time, it is…