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Tar sands extraction — mining oil from a mixture of sand or clay, water and very heavy crude oil — uses a huge amount of energy and water. Environmentalists say it results in more than three times as many emissions of carbon dioxide compared to conventional oil production.
Na, fühlt ihr, wie es mit der Umwelt schon bergauf geht?However, Walt Patterson, associate fellow at think-tank Chatham House, said: "Extracting oil from tar scares the pants off me. The whole idea is fundamentally perverse in the context of our present environmental situation. To then power it with nuclear, it seems to be the worst of all worlds."
Prost Mahlzeit. Wieso ist denn da überhaupt Handlungsbedarf, fragt ihr euch jetzt vielleicht? Nun,…Shell and its Athabasca partners currently pump over 155,000 barrels of oil per day from the tar sands but want to increase this by five times over the next 20 years. This would need more than an extra 1,000MW of generating capacity. Most of the project's existing power comes from a gas-fired plant, but gas production in North America is declining.