Posted on 07/05/2006 11:54:01 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Klein slams Al Gore interview on oil sands
JIM MACDONALD
Canadian Press
EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has criticized former U.S. vice-president Al Gore for comments he made in a magazine interview in which he attacked the massive oil-sands industry in northern Alberta.
Mr. Gore told an interviewer in the latest issue of Rolling Stone that oil-sands processing is a huge waste of energy and creates an eyesore on the landscape of Western Canada.
“For every barrel of oil they extract there, they have to use enough natural gas to heat a family's home for four days,” Mr. Gore told the magazine.
“And they have to tear up four tonnes of landscape, all for one barrel of oil. It is truly nuts. But you know, junkies find veins in their toes. It seems reasonable, to them, because they've lost sight of the rest of their lives.”
Mr. Gore concluded that the United States must reduce its dependence on oil as the primary source of energy to save the planet from the devastating impact of global warming.
Mr. Klein, who was recently in Washington to promote the oil sands as a reliable source of energy for the United States, said Mr. Gore's views are simply not realistic.
“I don't know what he proposes the world run on, maybe hot air,” he told reporters on Tuesday. “I don't listen to Al Gore in particular because he's a Democrat. And not only that, he's about as far left as you can go
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Bwahahahahaha
Al Gore would prefer we went back to the days when we had to shovel horse sh** off the streets.
And sold the California oil reserves to Occidental, in which his family was heavily invested.
Gore, mon ami..........
If I remember my discovery channel correctly the larger standard Yutes (Off Road Dumptrucks) are 40 yards/120 tons and the larger shovels fill them in one scoop. That would make four tons a small fraction of one scoop.
I feel so sorry for him, because he has truly lost his mind........He's still trying to live up to his daddy's expectations of him becoming president. And this, Algore of today, is the result. He really needs psychiatric help.......
Albert the oGre!
God bless Alberta. Some of the best folks on Earth reside there.
There is an obvious net energy gain, and there should be no problem with it. The energy balance is something like 1 barrel of oil equivalent is needed to create 3 barrels from the tar sands... the real issue is the cost, and right now the costs are favorable:
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1875182
"Undaunted, energy companies have ploughed billions of dollars into bringing down the cost of producing oil from tar sands. This has dropped from about $30 a barrel three decades ago to less than $12 a barrel at the latest facility, which was officially opened by Royal Dutch/Shell and its partners on June 19th, and joins plants run by Suncor and Syncrude, two Canadian firms whose businesses are built around the tar sands."
http://www.eenews.net/specialreports/tarsands/sr_tarsands2.htm
Syncrude's massive oil production facility is the largest single source of crude oil in Canada. It produces 13 percent of the country's annual oil requirements. Its Mildred Lake operation abuts a massive extraction and upgrade facility that is in the final stages of an $8 billion expansion that will add equipment the company says will help reduce stack emissions of sulfur by 60 percent from today's levels of 245 metric tons a day.
Just south of Syncrude's plant is the company's first mining site. It is now reclaimed -- rolling hills of grass and trees that support a herd of buffalo. The site includes a pond used for mine tailings.
Restoration
Looking northwest, tailings ponds and reclaimed mine area southeast of the Syncrude plant. The land to the west of this site has been reclaimed to the point where it supports a herd of buffalo. Photo by Mary O'Driscoll.
Across Highway 63 is what appears to be a massive tidal flat with wet, light-brown sand that Syncrude spokesman Allan Reich said is another mine site in the process of being reclaimed. Officials said that it would take 12 to 15 years to turn the site into rolling, grass-covered hills.
"It's our obligation to return the land to its equivalent capability," Reich said.
http://randsco.com/index.php/2006/02/05/Roaring_Dinosaurs-Prosperous_Alberta
Can we put wind farms near Cape Cod?
Oh, right. Can block Teddie "the Swimmer" Kennedy's view.
"I don't know what he proposes the world run on, maybe hot air,” he told reporters on Tuesday."
Bwahahahaha...but you're right, RB, he needs help.
That would be 30 tons per cubic yard... That doesn't compute, unless it was lead. 60,000 pounds for a 3x3x3 ft. cube of dirt???
Gotta love the way Albertans get right to the point and don't mince words. LOL.
Oil is sold in barrels (42 gal/bbl). A drum is 55 gallons.
That's three tons per cubic yard.
Mr. Gore concluded that the United States must reduce its dependence on oil as the primary source of energy to save the planet from the devastating impact of global warming.
I just love this kind of crap. The US is so bad then why does he want to run it? How about India and China's burdon on the oil dependency? Answer that AlGore....
Don't forget that Armand Hammer "gifted" the Gore family a bout $1,000,000 in Occidental Petroleum.
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