BS: Canucks:CBC, Alberta Tar Sands on now

Subject: BS: Canucks:CBC, Alberta Tar Sands on now
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 05:59 PM

Just got a call about this repeat program that ALL Canucks should see.

Subject: RE: BS: Canucks:CBC, Alberta Tar Sands on now
From: maeve
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 06:07 PM

I wish I could see it as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Canucks:CBC, Alberta Tar Sands on now
From: Bee
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 10:11 PM

I saw it. I have a headache now.

Subject: RE: BS: Canucks:CBC, Alberta Tar Sands on now
From: Peace
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 10:13 PM

No TV. Guess that's a good thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Canucks:CBC, Alberta Tar Sands on now
From: Bee
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 10:40 PM

Gnu, did you catch that footage of a pipeline flexing and bending? That's steel pipe doing that. Yikes!

I wish they'd drive at least one pipeline East, though. Seems like a sane idea.

Subject: RE: BS: Canucks:CBC, Alberta Tar Sands on now
From: Peace
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 10:41 PM

They get some temperature extremes up there.

Subject: RE: BS: Canucks:CBC, Alberta Tar Sands on now
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 11:24 PM

Tar sands web page at CBC.ca

Subject: RE: BS: Canucks:CBC, Alberta Tar Sands on now
From: Bee
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 11:31 PM

Peace, they do. My husband is a steamfitter/pipefitter, and has done his time a dozen times out in Alberta (and all over the rest of the country and offshore as well). He has some stories about the weather out there.

Subject: RE: BS: Canucks:CBC, Alberta Tar Sands on now
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 11:44 PM

You are surprised? When coal was easy to dig and was the fuel of choice, strip mines in the US ruined a lot of land in W. Virginia, Kansas...etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Canucks:CBC, Alberta Tar Sands on now
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 11:48 PM

I think that they need to make the extraction cleaner, reuse of the water and carbon sequestering would be a start.

Subject: RE: BS: Canucks:CBC, Alberta Tar Sands on now
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 10:30 AM

We'd probably be better off burning the Amazon forest, the furniture and our children rather than extracting from tar shales.

Whatever the process used, it takes a great deal of energy to recover bitumen and turn it into oil. An enormous amount of greenhouse gases are released in the process.

In fact, making oil from tar sands produces two or three times more greenhouse gases than producing conventional oil. From Treehugger.com