NJ5 on 09 October 2008
| MrBubbles said: "Since 1995, monitoring in the oil sands region shows improved or no change in long term air quality for the five key air quality pollutants" ", the amount of water taken for oil and gas development amounts to only about .5% of mean annual flow in the Athabasca River" "produces about 5 or 6 times as much energy as is consumed. Energy efficiency is expected to improve" |
That energy return is pretty bad compared to other oil production methods.
Water usage is still very high, and they're not even producing at full scale yet. Let's look at meaningful figures, not some random percentage:
To produce one cubic metre (m³) of synthetic crude oil (SCO) (upgraded bitumen) in a mining operation requires about 2–4.5 m³ of water (net figures).
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