energy examples

Cards (12)

  • 9.3 million barrels per day of oil are extracted from Saudi Arabia
  • 3.3 million barrels a day are extracted from the Athabaskan tar sands
  • 550,000 barrels of oil a day are transported through the Keystone pipeline. the XL would have upped it to 850,000
  • 180,000 barrels per day: willow project at max output.
  • the great crosscourse is a seam of igneous rock with potential for geothermal energy. (located close to the Eden project)
  • $54 billion contributed to the Canadian economy by the tar sands
  • 2 million acres of forest destroyed to facilitate the tar sands
  • 5:1 the ERI of the tar sands
  • 25:1 ERI of conventional oil
  • 8.3 million barrels of oil a day are imported to the USA
  • 80% of global oil reserves controlled by OPEC
  • 52% of USA oil imported from Canada