Understanding the Holistic Effects of Development on Communities

The oil sands resource is sometimes referred to as “tar sands,” but that term is incorrect because bitumen and tar (asphalt) are different substances. The term ... Background. ▫ Tar sands (referred to as oil sands in Canada) are a combination of clay, sand, water, and bitumen, a heavy, black, asphalt-like hydrocarbon. Sep 25, 2014 ... The Alberta Tar Sands ... Buried just beneath a layer of muskeg and forest in northern Alberta, Canada, lies a 50,000 square mile reservoir of ... Jul 12, 2013 ... Your children to stir up bitumen and then stick their noses over a vent so that they can inhale tar sands fumes. Tar sands are primarily used for producing petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel fuel. The sand is extracted and processed to remove the bitumen, a ... Mar 19, 2012 ... The article featured the optimistic headline: “New study finds oil sands fuels would cause imperceptible temperature rise.” Asphaltic rocks or "tar sands" of Mississippian age crop out in north-central and northwest. Alabama at various locations dispersed throughout a ... Tar sand refers to loose-to-consolidated sandstone or porous rock impregnated with bitumen, a high viscosity asphaltic material different from conventional ... Mar 2, 2015 ... A Canadian National Railways train carrying diluted bitumen (dilbit) from the tar sands in Alberta derailed in northern Ontario, with 29 of the ... Mar 15, 2010 ... Andrew Nikiforuk's Tar Sands is a critical exposé of the world's largest energy project—the Alberta oil sands—that has made Canada one of the ...