Its the same as using the energy in using natural gas to heat the Athabasca water to make the steam to separate the sand from the tar that is mined by the machines that are made from the steel that is smelted by the coal that will pollute the waters so we can sell the oil to the USA at a big discount that makes big profits for the mainly US corporations who own the leases and the machines that use the diesel from the NorthWest Refinery that use the tarsands crude in lieu of royalties that is made by burning natural gas that provides the energy to heat the Athabasca water make the steam...........
Having been in (and profited) from the northern Alberta gravel business I always felt I was supplying gravel to build heavier roads to haul more gravel. Never has there been any question of reducing the loads etc. and whether it’s gravel they are hauling or oil infrastructure it’s just blindly more and bigger.
Its the same as using the energy in using natural gas to heat the Athabasca water to make the steam to separate the sand from the tar that is mined by the machines that are made from the steel that is smelted by the coal that will pollute the waters so we can sell the oil to the USA at a big discount that makes big profits for the mainly US corporations who own the leases and the machines that use the diesel from the NorthWest Refinery that use the tarsands crude in lieu of royalties that is made by burning natural gas that provides the energy to heat the Athabasca water make the steam...........
A song with the same lovely circular logic- from Hadestown- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1VDxMe54Og
Having been in (and profited) from the northern Alberta gravel business I always felt I was supplying gravel to build heavier roads to haul more gravel. Never has there been any question of reducing the loads etc. and whether it’s gravel they are hauling or oil infrastructure it’s just blindly more and bigger.