Canadian Green Technology Announced
Monday, January 18th, 2010Often considered to be one of the more dirty industries when it comes to the wider environment, the oil and gas industry has been undergoing a green movement to help it clean up, reduce carbon emissions and more. The oil and gas industry will never be completely clean, but until a complete movement away from [...]
Alberta Oil Sands Bitumen – Heavy Crude Oil
Saturday, December 26th, 2009Canadian oil sands extraction, greenhouse gases, and the tailings as a result of the process of recovering the oil are of major contention in Canada and increasingly around the world. The Alberta lands leased for mining are scarred and polluted with oil trails. Government regulations concerning these environmental damages have resulted in responses from several [...]
Greenpeace Report On The Alberta Tar Sands
Thursday, September 17th, 2009A new updated report on the Canadian tar sands from Greenpeace was released to the public on Tuesday, September 14th. Through this report Greenpeace would like to emphasize that an action needs to be taken before the tar sands in Alberta, Canada cause a global climate crisis. Due to the majority of the tar sands’ [...]
Canadian Attitudes Towards Freshwater Usage and Conservation
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009A new study, the Canadian Water Attitudes Study, has found that 53 per cent of Canadians find freshwater as Canada’s most important natural resource. Much further back were forests at 20 per cent and farmland and agricultural lands at 14 per cent. Also finding their way onto the survey were Canada’s oil energy reserves and [...]