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Oil Sands: Destroyer or Savior?

6. November 2009 | Von atsil | Kategorie:Read the World extension4

Few energy resources stir passions like Canada’s oil sands.

Huge inputs of natural gas, for example, are needed to separate and process the bitumen, and according to one study by RAND, production from oil sands generates perhaps 30 percent more greenhouse gases than conventional oil extraction.

Read more: Oil Sands: Destroyer or Savior? by Tom Zeller jr. (New York Times)

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  1. Forget what you think you know about extracting oil from oil sands and tar sands — the current technologies being used are primitive, heat-based and cause all the pollution that everyone hates about the situation in Candad.

    Now there is a NEW TECHNOLOGY solution that can help Canada clean-up the oil sands so that there are NO more environmental problems:

    See the videos of this technology already working: http://www.EncapSol.com/media

    See the scaled up equipment that extracts oil from oil sands with NO consumption of water, NO consumption of natural gas and NO production of toxic tailing pond waste – this is a DRY technology:

    http://www.EncapSol.com/tar-sands-and-oil-shale-extraction/

    Technology is the answer.

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