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The Tar Sands “Gigaproject” is the largest industrial project in human history and likely also the most destructive. The tar sands mining procedure releases at least three times the CO2 emissions as regular oil production and is slated to become the single largest industrial contributor in North America to Climate Change.

The tar sands are already slated to be the cause of up to the second fastest rate of deforestation on the planet behind the Amazon Rainforest Basin. Currently approved projects will see 3 million barrels of tar sands mock crude produced daily by 2018; for each barrel of oil up to as high as five barrels of water are used.

Since 2007 RBC Royal Bank Canada – has backed more than $16.9 billion (USD) in loans to companies operating in the tar sands—more than any other bank. Expansion of the tar sands is trampling the rights of Indigenous peoples, destroying globally significant ecosystems and significantly increasing Canadas carbon emissions.

Human health in many communities has seriously taken a turn for the worse with many causes alleged to be from tar sands production. Tar sands production has led to many serious social issues throughout Alberta, from housing crises to the vast expansion of temporary foreign worker programs that racialize and exploit so-called non-citizens. Infrastructure from pipelines to refineries to super tanker oil traffic on the seas crosses the continent in all directions to all three major oceans and the Gulf of Mexico.

The mock oil produced primarily is consumed in the United States and helps to subsidize continued wars of aggression against other oil producing nations such as Iraq, Venezuela and Iran.
Royal Bank of Canada

The Royal Bank of Canada (Banque Royale du Canada in French) is Canada’s largest company.[1] It has over 1,400 branches across Canada, over 70,000 full-and part-time employees worldwide, and offices in over 34 countries.

SNAPSHOT:
Number of employees worldwide: 60,858
Chief executive officer: Gordon Nixon
Website: http://www.rbc.com/
Global Fortune 500 rank: 211
Total revenue: 20.6 billion

Find out more and take action:

http://oilsandstruth.org/
http://www.ienearth.org/nativeenergy.html
http://ran.org/campaigns/freedom_from_oil/spotlight/tar_sands/
http://climatefriendlybanking.org/
http://www.corpwatch.org

Our objective is to save humanity and not just half of humanity. We are here to save mother earth. Our objective is to reduce climate change to [under] 1°C. [above this] many islands will disappear and Africa will suffer a holocaust. The real cause of climate change is the capitalist system. If we want to save the earth then we must end that economic model. Capitalism wants to address climate change with carbon markets. We denounce those markets and the countries which [promote them]. It’s time to stop making money from the disgrace that they have perpetrated.”
- Evo Morales, December 16th, 2010, Copenhagen Climate Summit

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Without any press conferences, grand announcements, or hyperbolic advertising campaigns, the Exxon Mobil Corporation, one of the world’s largest publicly owned petroleum companies, has quietly joined the ranks of those who are predicting an impending plateau in non-OPEC oil production. Their report, The Outlook for Energy: A 2030 View, forecasts a peak in just five years.

However, as with all advertisements, it’s best to read the fine print. ExxonMobil’s world oil production forecast shows no contribution from “oil shale” even by 2030. Only about 4 million barrels of oil per day from Canadian “oil sands” are projected by 2030, accounting for a mere 3.3 percent of the predicted total world demand of 120 million barrels per day. What explains this striking disconnection between the magnitude of the frontier resources and the minimal amount of projected oil production from them? Canadian “oil sands” are actually deposits of bitumen (tar), which are the result of conventional oil degradation by water and air. Tar sands are of a completely different character than conventional oil deposits; making tar sands usable is a capital-intensive venture that requires special procedures such as heating to separate the tar from the sand, mixing the tar with a diluting agent for pipeline transport, and constructing specially equipped refineries for processing.

What all this means is that the petroleum industry is approaching a turning point. Conventional petroleum production will soon–perhaps in five years, ten at best–no longer be able to satisfy demand. For their part, American consumers would do well to take a cue from their Western European counterparts, who enjoy a comfortable lifestyle despite a per capita use of petroleum that is half of that in the United States. The sooner the United States begins this transition away from oil, the easier it will be. That’s a far more attractive option than trying to squeeze oil from stone.

The most serious constraint, though, is natural gas supplies. Production of oil from tar sands requires between 400 and 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas per barrel of oil produced, depending on the extraction method used. Natural gas production, despite a near doubling of drilling activity, is flat or decreasing both in Canada and in the United States–which has prompted prices to triple over the past few years. Given these high gas prices, it almost makes more sense just to sell the natural gas directly rather than use it to produce oil from tar sands.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=what+is+the+world%27s+largest+oil+company&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=1msx&oq=worlds+largest+oil+company

http://peakoil.blogspot.com/2005/05/exxonmobil-sounds-silent-peak-oil.html

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Summary: Discover the real truth about the biggest oil deposits in the world and the stunning environmental impact of oil exploration in the spectacular scenery of Albertas oil country.

Concerns about the future supply of conventional oil have attracted new attention to the potential yield from “oil sands.” Walking on oil Alberta’s Oil Sands focuses on the Provinces crude bitumen oil sands estimated to be the World’s largest hydrocarbon deposits. According to the World Energy Council, Alberta’s reserves are estimated to stand at least 1,600 billion barrels. Certain experts claim that Alberta’s oil sands contain more petroleum than Saudi Arabia’s oil fields and enough resources to supply Canadas energy for more than 475 years or total world energy needs for up to 15 years. But does the World need this oil resource?

Albertas Oil Sands The Problem and the Conflict: The fuel from the tar sands is thick and heavy and is bound to water and sand. Extraction of the oil and refining it destroys countless miles of irreplaceable forest land and requires enormous amounts of energy and water. Tar sands oil production creates 2 to 3 times as much greenhouse gas as production of conventional oil hence the contribution to global warming. Enormous machinery is used to remove trees, rocks, soil and sand from the earth and once the tar sands are removed, the resulting huge holes in the ground remain along with the toxic water-borne tailings.

As the Greenland ice cap melts (and melting is well underway) it may raise ocean levels by 20 feet, flooding major cities and coastlines worldwide. As a world together, we have to make the right decisions about the extraction and use of Albertas immense oil resource

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