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Questions:
What is the current equivalent barrels per day of oil from this environmental disaster?
What are the official estimates of future production?
edit: I looked further into the post and discovered it was not about Alberta alone. So it is the Alberta situation about which these questions are asked.
geek, the current flow of oil out of the Tar Sands is around 1.8MB/d. The one news article left out was a research report done last May '06 from the Pembina Institute (an Alberta Think tank) commisioned by the provincial government, basically it says;
At current extraction rates, Alberta will run out of water by 2014. This report was published in Canada's national news paper the Globe & Mail.
Now if that doesn't raise concerns I don't know what will. If they insist on growth in the Tar Sands, Canada must build a pipeline from the ocean and desailinate the water to use up there, instead of tapping into the James bay fresh water. By building a pipeline, they can actually use the water for irrigation purposes additionally, given global warming issues going forward.
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OCB
I know that's not true, it's about 1.2 mbd right now, but I have to look that up. Not a minor thing either, that's off by 50%.
Wait, found it, Sep 9:
We'll all read the Marsden book and shudder.
Receding Horizons, my friends.