Originally posted by: ZzZGuy
Originally posted by: techs
Yes, its about time Canada turned into a polluted wasteland.
I hereby demand Canada produce all the oil the US wants out of their tar/oil shale.
After all, if Canada won't comply, we will just invade and take over and make Canada the 51st state.
And then we would be polluting OUR country.
Now the only question is which or all of the Great Lakes we will drain so we will have enough water to extract the oil?
I'm guessing you haven't seen the oil sands before.
There is nothing special up there. It's no worse then clear cutting when trees are replanted.
I think it might even be better in the long run for the environment, the oil sands are just below the surface, you see the oil oozing out into the rivers and on the ground in some places and I mean naturally.
There is also the government policy of restoring the dig sites back to how they where before, they have bison herds (those fenced in) on reclaimed patches of land. Some of the older restored sites you would never know where once a open pit mine.
If they so much as spill a gallon of gas on the ground they have to do a clean up. Rather ironic as the ground was full of oil before.
The only long term negative impact is new cities, towns and roads and as I said there is nothing special up there, no species or habitats that will be destroyed as a result of these things.