Author: chris

For the Allan Adam, Dene Chief, Fort Chipewyan and generations of his people, the land is life, then one day, the land changed. The worlds largest corporation came looking for oil. A sea of sand soaked with bitumen. Describe how the Alberta oil sands changed everything.

In a world running out of conventional oil, this is what is left, and there is a fortune to be made. Identify the skate holders.

The tar sands now supply more oil to the United States than any other foreign source. Describe the Canadian—US Government arrangements.

Describe how the Athabasca river, which feeds the Athabasca Lake, brings the riches of the land, but 120 Km upstream the river also feeds the tar sands and carries with it the toxins.

Discuss the epidemiological health data that suggest toxin from Albert tar sands are responsible for brain tumours and cancer.

Describe how the community of Fort Chipewyan, which relates heavily on traditional foods has been affected by waterer contamination, illustrate your findings with the physical evidence provided including fish which are inedible, deformed, bend over, crooked, partially eaten by acid.

The Fort Chipewyan family physician found diseases directly connected to toxins in the environment. The physician requested a baseline health study from Health Canada. Describe what happened with this request.

Describe what happened at the Press Conference on Fish Deformities held in Edmonton AB.

If you ask an Environment Canada media spokesperson about contamination resulting from tar sands operation, they will not tell you the federal government has failed to adequately monitor the mega-project’s effects on water. The tar sends are contaminating hundreds of kilometres of land in nor them Alberta with cancer-causing contaminants and neurotoxins. Review the contributions of University of Alberta scientist Dr. David Schindler in exposing the negative effects of tar sands production on local waterways and aquatic species.

Alberta Government claims that the tar sands development leaves the Athabasca Lake unaffected. Provide your opinion based on what you know.

The tar sand development is now the biggest construction project in the world. Summarize the findings published in National Geographic Magazine March 2009 – Vol. 215 – No .3. How did the Politicians react to this published investigation?

According to allen Adam, Dene Chief, Fort Chipewyan “ this development is taking place on private property, if you are going to do anything with the land, you have to ask us. We never sold the land, never gave it up, never surrounded it, but people still think they have the right to come in here and do what they want to do.” Discuss why under Canadian law he owns the land and has the right to hunt and fish. However where the development is taking place, the disruption is so extensive , that it is now fair to say that their properly rights, can no longer be meaningfully exercised, Because the habitat has been destroyed.

Q2) Discuss how we are moving from an era of cheap abundant energy to an era of scarce hard to get expensive energy ?

Q3)Why are oil exporting nations interested in keeping the world dependent on oil as long as possible?

Q4) Increased unemployment, poverty, bankruptcy, starvation their are all kinds of things that happen when a society collapses, we are entering a new world of unbelievable oil shortages and its only a few years away. Discuss how this will affect your life.

Q5) Describe how oil is not like wheat, we are not growing it every year. The great bulk of the worlds oil was formed in two very brief epochs, in periods of extreme global warming 90 and 150 years ago. when the organic material was buried to a depth of 2000 m a chemical reaction converted it into oil. formed once, briefly over 4B years geological time.

Q6) All the oil created over earth’s 4B years, humans will use up in one or two centuries. How will this affect an engineers career ?

Q7) one barrel of oil costing just over $100 will produce as much energy as you can get from 12 people working all year invest $1 to extract oil out Iraq and get back 25,000 hours of human labor. How can we replace oil?

Q8) Oil is our gad. This energy is so dense it nearly free energy. The most invaluable resource we have ever discovered?

Q9) What is the actual cost of products you enjoy? Discuss why the construction of an average car consumers the energy equivalent of 27 and 54 BBL of oil. Construction of a laptop PC consume 10 times their weight in fossil fuels. Microchips consumes 630 times its weight in fossil fuel during its construction. What is all this going to cost when we run out of cheap oil?

Q10) There are 7B people living on the planet. Most are reasonably well fed as a consequence of the green revolution.

Q11) Describe how the green revolution consisted in large measures of fertilizing land with petrochemicals derived from petrolum.

Q12) For every calorie you eat, requires 10 calorie of hydrocarbons energy to produce. How are we to feed 9B people 2050?

Q13) The liquids that come out of oil as its processed and refined, create the building blocks for all our petrochemical, chemicals, materials, plastics and pharmaceuticals. How will engineering adapt to a world without cheap oil?

Q14) How the end of cheap oil affect your career?

It should include the following:

Introduction – what is your report about? Where will you get your information?

Description of the alternative energy production

• Where is it used? (UAE, global, in water, on land? Include a map)
• How does it work? Use diagrams and pictures
• How much energy is produced? Use statistics/graphs
Discussion

• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• The future of this type of alternative energy
Conclusion

• What have you learned?
• Your opinion of this type of energy.
References

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Name: Abdulla Kalib
HCT ID: H00269332
Course Code: LSC 2183
Instructor: Julie Wallace