Dirty Oil and the facts.

[OldSkool]

I'm about done with the Occupy and dirty oil nuts out there. Quite frankly, unless you've been there you don't have a clue about the land, people, water, or oil.
I have spent much time in the oil pits and can tell you first hand that what the populace is told os 180 degrees from the truth. What they don't tell you is that the oil literally lays on the ground and nothing grows but scrap wood that can find a patch of ground to grow on. There's oil in the river water before it is every used at the refinery. The ground oozes the oil as you dig into it. 1 ton of soil yields 1 barrel of oil. I can go on but do not have the room.

Here are some pictures with description.

This is the oil in the river before used for refining. Notice the oil rainbow. Also notice the fisherman!

This is one of the pits being mined. The pools are oil that oozes out of the ground.

This is the "DIRTY SAND" left behind. Nice white beach sand.

They use the dirty sand to fill the hole back in then plant vegitation and create game reserves. How disgusting is that.


BTW the clean water is put back in the river.

 

[CV-23]

Where is this at OldSkool?...Mike.

 

[OldSkool]

Fort McMurray, Canada. North of Edmonton. All the land is reclaimed and returned back to nature. The open mine are all the media will show. They never include the new preservations that are created after the mining is done.

 

[MonacoMike]

Fort McMurray, Canada. North of Edmonton. All the land is reclaimed and returned back to nature. The open mine are all the media will show. They never include the new preservations that are created after the mining is done.

That would go against what their preconceived brainwashed little minds were told on NPR and in the government funded universities. MM

 

[OldSkool]

You tell me which is worse the oil sands of Canada or this:

Bay City, Texas 2009.

 

[Woody]

You tell me which is worse the oil sands of Canada or this:

Bay City, Texas 2009.

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That's a refinery in the pic. I don't understad the comparison, even the oil from the oil sands will be refined.

 

[OldSkool]

You are correct Woody. Yet we have no issue bringing OPEC oil here and screwing up our environment. The ECO folks claim that the biggest issue with claiming this oil from the ground is that they are creating greenhouse gasses. So is it more hazardous to create carbon pollutants in America or greenhouse gasses in Canada? BTW, The greenhouse gas claim is completely unfounded but that doesn't stop the propaganda mills.

The oil that comes from Canada to our refinery’s is no more hazardous to process than the OPEC oil yet our fine government would rather buy oil from people who would kill us if it weren't for the money we pay.

The mid-east holds us hostage with oil. We pi$$ our collective pants every time a terrorist attacks and we bend over to be reamed by OPEC countries.
Please don't hurt us, we'll buy your overpriced oil.

 

[MonacoMike]

I do think it is cool we are using up their oil first. MM

 

[northern]

Thanks for starting this and the positive comments. I have worked in the oil buisness in Canada since graduating. The area that has been mined in Fort McMurray looks good after reclemation. As with any open pit mine they all can be made to look bad if the pictures are taken at the correct time, but when reclamed hard to tell there was ever a mine. The last tar sand plant I worked at it was hard to tell it was running. Wonder where people think gas for their car comes from when they drive to an anti oil or pipeline protest.

 

[shuizen]

The only issue I think is a true environmental issue for using oil sands is the transport of the oil to the gulf refineries. Why do they have to run the pipeline over the water tables? The proposed route is just over the eastern edge. Since a multi-thousand mile line is being built, is it really that hard to move it east 100 miles?

 

[OldSkool]

The only issue I think is a true environmental issue for using oil sands is the transport of the oil to the gulf refineries. Why do they have to run the pipeline over the water tables? The proposed route is just over the eastern edge. Since a multi-thousand mile line is being built, is it really that hard to move it east 100 miles?

You make a good point I don't have an answer for at this time. I will check it out and post what I find. All the same the refusal of our administration to buy and use Canadian oil has been ongoing way before the pipeline proposal. Anyone remember the piece NatGeo did on the flock of ducks landing in the oil sand ponds and dying? Now there are thousands of duck deterrents throughout the pond systems to scare the ducks away. Then it was the water quality issue. Cleaner water is flowing back to the river than was removed.

Now they say the mining machines are creating all this greenhouse gas, which by the way is unfounded. So I'm not surprised over this latest development over the pipeline. Who said it was dangerous to the aquifer? ECO freaks?