Oilsands in Canada
About 15 years ago nobody knews where the little city called Fort McMurray was located or even if it existed. It is situated in Canada in the Athabasca oil sands and consits of a mixture of crude bitumen, silica sand, clay minerals and water. It is one of the largest reservoir in the world and the third major oil sand deposit in Alberta. It enfolds an area about 141,000 square kilometers and lies under a sparsely populated boreal forest and contain about 1,7 trillion barrels of bitumen in-place. With modern unconventional oil production technology you can filtrate at least 10% of the oil. But in this industry several serious enviromental problem rise. First of all they had to slash and burn the boreal forest, which is very important for clean air and of course for the animals living there. As a consequence they destroyed the habitat of the species and some animals died during this. Moreover the city is along nearby the peace river and cold lake deposits. So the garbadge and the chemicals run into this river and polute it. From this it follows that the area around the river is polutet and the fish become deform. In addition the drinking water is poisioned and the people suffer from diseases like cancer while drinking it or eating the fish. A good impact is that a lot of people around this area find a new job but a bad fact is that more and more people from all over the world come there so that the city is crowded and burstet at the seams. It follows that the living area becomes bigger and so the habitats of the animals shrink. The more people in this city the more garbadge they produce the more enviromet is polutet and the more global warming is supportet because of traffic and industry. But the envirometal defence organisation trys to solve the river and air polution by install some filters in the oilmachines. Today there is less contamination and they do everything to save the surrounding world.
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