Digging deep in Canadian soil: World's most destructive oil operation in Fort McMurray

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2 жыл бұрын

In the soil of the Canadian state of Alberta lies a much sought-after treasure: oil sand. The extraction of the tarry mass is expensive and extremely damaging to the environment. But the world is hungry for oil from Alberta's forests, because the price of oil is rising as global resources dwindle. The Canadian government is fully committed to the third-largest oil reserve on earth, ignoring critics and opponents alike.
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In recent decades, Canada has become one of the largest producers of oil sands. The boom is particularly noticeable in the city of Fort McMurray. Nowhere is the income of the people higher. But oil sands production has extreme consequences. Gigantic areas of forest are cleared, oil sands are dredged, tar is etched out of the earth in an energy-intensive process, and finally refined into synthetic crude oil. What is left behind are septic tanks and destroyed land.
Excerpt from the documentary "Fort McMurray, Kanada im Ölfieber" (360° - GEO Reportage)
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@radleo2291 2 жыл бұрын

As someone who lives and works in the Fort McMurray area I find this video a bit misleading. If you look deeper into it you will find that the world loves to paint us with a brush that doesn't show the other side, the reclamation process. The land is restored back to nature and wildlife lives back on the land, wetlands are created and new trees planted. So yes after we feed the hunger for our natural resources that the world demands, we do our due diligences to put things back to the way it was or better. Open pit mining looks bad at face valve but every way of extracting oil from the earth has its downside. Just when you can't see it it is a lot easier to turn a blind eye to it. When the world is ready to make the transition away from oil that will be a day to remember. I am also sure that when it comes there will be groups that are opposed to that as well.

@gordwcummings Жыл бұрын

Your comment is misleading. Planting trees in an environment that is boggy is not reclamation. It's a plantation of virtue signaling.

@radleo2291 Жыл бұрын

@@gordwcummings reclaimed land is not a bog. A bog is a wetland area which is also a reclaimed form of land. The region has both here, that's why I mentioned both. We also have one of the largest sand dunes that are not in a desert. If you are not from here or never been here to see it for yourself, I can understand why you would think the way you do.

@Summit03 Жыл бұрын

@@gordwcummings If the people only knew the amount of technologies and reclamation practices benefiting the world that were developed by these oil companies, they’d be shocked. More money is spent annually in reclamation, carbon reduction tech, and environmental processes by oil sands companies, then what it actually cost them to mine and process the oil in the first place. Name another company that puts more then half of its capital into something that brings back zero financial return…

@hammothw4814 Жыл бұрын

yup. no country is doing it better than Canada. and every person and country that uses oil directly or indirectly should be thanking us.

@trevorlush9422 Жыл бұрын

The most ethical and environmentally responsible way to extract oil...period. Amateurs

@hammothw4814 Жыл бұрын

yup.

@seantwin4327 Жыл бұрын

The person who made this video has not researched and included a lot of information important to the industry there.

@gordwcummings Жыл бұрын

Educate us. Like what?

@bwasman8409 Жыл бұрын

Agree [Rad Leo]. Most countries don't even think of reclamation! Good for you!

@3mmmm1 Жыл бұрын

My mother works in syncrude wich is the oil company and when they are done with a piece of land the will lock it up and plant new trees

@tvismyonlyfriend Жыл бұрын

When we were one contenant Alberta was a coast line in the northwest

@embededfabrication4482 2 ай бұрын

Go to any maps app, sattelite view of ft mac, then zoom out. Its a little spec in a huge wilderness. Get a grip

@tvismyonlyfriend Жыл бұрын

Celebrated for its lofty mountains and yawning canyons, Alberta was once an Oceanside paradise. In the Early Devonian period, it sat on the northwestern edge of the supercontinent Pangaea edged by crystal seas and endless beaches

@simusocat 2 жыл бұрын

Verrückt!

@tvismyonlyfriend Жыл бұрын

Visit Alberta !!

@tvismyonlyfriend Жыл бұрын

For most of its long history, Alberta lay beneath the sea. Two billion years ago, it drifted near the equator, it's clear waters warmed by tropical sun. This primeval seabed was a perfect propagate of primitive life, but not far away, the pink and gray Precambrian landscape harboured not a single living thing