She reports there are about 960 American companies that support Alberta oil sands activities, with thousands more jobs that could be created if the U.S. would take steps to promote
greater oil sands development — such as approving the Keystone XL pipeline.
In fact, one study has estimated that
greater oil sands development as a whole could support 600,000 U.S. jobs in 2035.
Not exact matches
In contrast, the Alberta government has a much more significant vested interest in
oil sands development, and
greater policy and regulatory influence.
Rarely recalled, though, is the wide - eyed way Harper described
oil sands development to the Brits that day, calling it «an enterprise of epic proportions, akin to the building of the pyramids or China's
Great Wall.»
IHS CERA's new environmental assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline and pipeline - related
oil sands development sends a pretty clear message to President Obama as he decides whether to approve the full project's construction: There's not a climate rationale for rejecting the pipeline — and along with it, tens of thousands of U.S. jobs, economic uplift and
greater energy security.
Additional escalation of the mining impact occurs as conventional
oil mining is supplanted by tar
sands development, with mining and land disturbance from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times
greater than conventional
oil production per unit area [152], but with substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].
Canada has
great plans for controlling greenhouse gases, except of course where it might hurt
oil sands development in Alberta.
Weaver argues that the climate effects of
oil sands development will have only a small effect on global temperatures and that the potential of coal and gas consumption to contribute to serious climate change is much
greater.
Great expertise in
oil and gas field
development planning,
oil sands exploration, modeling and reporting