There is no reason to be expanding oil exploitation as a fuel source. Whether you think it’s ‘woke’ or not, electricity is the only sustainable way to power industry, transportation and residential loads (with the exception of some chemical gotchas, blast furnaces use coke because it is a reducing agent and can convert rust into iron). And with a shift to electricity for energy all of our remaining petroleum needs (plastics, chemical precursors, etc) are more than met with existing mining operations.
Not to mention extracting, separating and refining oil sand is one of the dirtiest processes out there. Oil sand is nearly solid and needs to be steamed to get the sand out, then the oil/water mixture has to be separated leaving an absolute fuck ton of contaminated water.
At this stage pipelines are just another way to line the pockets of Canada’s politicians and foreign business owners by selling the future of the country.
Oil prices will also most likely peak within a decade, rendering yet more crazy-expensive and long-term investments into fossil fuel infrastructure questionable. Tar sands oil is some of the most expensive oil to manufacture, so it will fare badly when oil prices start to come down
There is no reason to be expanding oil exploitation as a fuel source. Whether you think it’s ‘woke’ or not, electricity is the only sustainable way to power industry, transportation and residential loads (with the exception of some chemical gotchas, blast furnaces use coke because it is a reducing agent and can convert rust into iron). And with a shift to electricity for energy all of our remaining petroleum needs (plastics, chemical precursors, etc) are more than met with existing mining operations.
Not to mention extracting, separating and refining oil sand is one of the dirtiest processes out there. Oil sand is nearly solid and needs to be steamed to get the sand out, then the oil/water mixture has to be separated leaving an absolute fuck ton of contaminated water.
At this stage pipelines are just another way to line the pockets of Canada’s politicians and foreign business owners by selling the future of the country.
Oil prices will also most likely peak within a decade, rendering yet more crazy-expensive and long-term investments into fossil fuel infrastructure questionable. Tar sands oil is some of the most expensive oil to manufacture, so it will fare badly when oil prices start to come down