Saturday, August 17, 2013

Food for thought

Staying with the environment, and contradicting all the clean, green Tar Sands adverts we are getting on TV, The Toronto Star (July 20) reported that Canadian Natural Resources has been unable to stop an underground oil blowout that has gone on for six weeks at Cold Lake, Alberta. So far, some 26,000 and counting barrels of bitumen and 30,600 kilograms of oily vegetation have been removed. To say nothing of the 'in situ' or underground extraction technology called cyclic steam stimulation that involves injecting thousands of gallons of super hot, high pressure steam into deep underground reservoirs. Obviously, it's a crazy thing to do and is an accident waiting to happen, but it makes money, for some. John Ayers.

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