Tar Sands Canada case study

• why is tar sands known as 'heavy' and 'dirty' oil?


  it has to be cooked to bring it to the composition of 'very' crude oil as it needs 1 million years to be natural crude oil
• how many years of oil does Tar Sands have?


  200 years of supply
• how many barrels of oil does the Tar Sands produce?


  1.3 million a day
• how large is the reserve?


  2nd largest in the world and the size of england
• how many barrels of oil does it take to make one barrel?


  2
• what area is rejecting the move in of the oil industry?

  Fort Chip
• what is Fort Chip?


  the first nation village
• what Lake is polluted due to the oil industry?

  Lake Athabasca
• why is the village not able to fight the big companies?

  they are doing testing in the lake but it is funded by the oil companies and is coming back un-polluted
• what is evidence that Fort Chip is having negative issues due to the oil industry?


  an increased amount of residence have died from rare cancer
• what is the name of the area that is adapting to the oil industry?

  Fort Mikay
• what is Fort Mikay?

  a village with indigenous people that have decided to join the oil industry
• what industry did Fort Mikay produce before the oil industry?


  Fur - their Fur companies stopped due to other countries making fur products unethically and then the world stop purchasing due to ethics
• why did Fort Mikay choose to turn to the oil industry?


  their fur business stopped

  the governments owned the land and sold it to the oil companies

  they had no choice
• what was the town Alberta known for?


  boom town - where people went to spend their money earnt at the oil plantations

  everyone there is for the money
• what was the problems that happened in Alberta?

  social issues

  sex industry and casinos
• what did the oil industry provide for their workers?


  $1,000 a day, and provides food and board
• how have the oil company tried to justify its industry?

  they have said they return the environment back to its original state after extraction is complete
• how does the company pay the community to keep quite and not complain?

  $40 million went towards a community center

  $10,000 a year goes to the indigenous people (men, women, and children)