PVAF Series...Search For "DAILY LIFE TRUTH".....A Economics Professor challenges the Alberta oil-sands producers to tell the Truth...saying Truth make
Posted by Vishva News Reporter on September 22, 2011

 

 

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......The amazing Truth about TRUTH itself....
 
THE TRUTH IS NOT FOR ALL MEN, BUT ONLY FOR THOSE WHO SEEK IT.
~Ayn Rand
All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.

~Galileo Galilei
LOVE TRUTH,
AND PARDON ERROR.

~Voltaire
All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

~Arthur Schopenhauer
....and now the most profound life-science truth is from the scientist who found the Truth about Truth from his life-time search for the Truth of of our existence which we cannot see with our naked eye....
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth
may well be another profound truth.

~Niels Bohr
 
With some of the fundamentals about Truth verified by the above human geniuses....PVAF wishes you to click on the next line to continue on the next PVAF webpage on your own personal quest in understanding Truth by reading today's news sharing about a Economics Professor challenging today's global wealth creators to share their wealth creation Truth with entire humanity which makes them rich.....
.....and along the way also learn about the Alberta Athabasca Oils Sands which is the second largest undeveloped oil reservoir in the world...first being the oil reservoir in Saudi Arabia....
......and before you leave PVAF today also study some more verification of the Truth form some more brand name human of the recent human past who could see the Truth unlike most of the humanity....
....and make sure not to short-change yourself on your quest for life-sciences knowledge by studying overviews in hyperlinks on this webpage and the next...these hyperlinks are your free source of vast human knowledge depth - the depth that suits your lifestyle and daily needs to grow and prosper....


....please continue scrolling for
your participation in your quest to
realize the TRUTH emanating from
today's news/knowledge sharing at PVAF...
 
File:Athabasca Oil Sands map.png
Alberta Athabasca Oils Sands Location (Wikipedia)

The Athabasca oil sands (colloquially known as the Athabasca tar sands, although there is no tar present) are large deposits of bitumen, or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada - roughly centred on the boomtown of Fort McMurray. These oil sands, hosted in the McMurray Formation, consist of a mixture of crude bitumen (a semi-solid form of crude oil), silica sand, clay minerals, and water. The Athabasca deposit is the largest reservoir of crude bitumen in the world and the largest of three major oil sands deposits in Alberta, along with the nearby Peace River and Cold Lake deposits. Together, these oil sand deposits lie under 141,000 square kilometres (54,000 sq mi) of sparsely populated boreal forest and muskeg (peat bogs) and contain about 1.7 trillion barrels (270×10^9 m3) of bitumen in-place, comparable in magnitude to the world's total proven reserves of conventional petroleum. Although the CEO of Shell Canada, Clive Mather, estimates Canada's reserves to be 2 trillion barrels or more, essentially 8 times more than Saudi Arabia, the IEA (International Energy Agency) lists Canada's reserves as being 178 billion barrels.  With modern unconventional oil production technology, at least 10% of these deposits, or about 170 billion barrels (27×10^9 m3) were considered to be economically recoverable at 2006 prices, making Canada's total proven reserves the second largest in the world, after Saudi Arabia's. The Athabasca deposit is the only large oil sands reservoir in the world which is suitable for large-scale surface mining, although most of it can only be produced using more recently developed in-situ technology......PLEASE CLICK HERE TO KEEP ON EDUCATING YOURSLEF OF the entire history to date of Athabasca Oils Sands in Alberta, Canada...


.....FOR TRUTH ABOUT OILSAND....
truth of past, present and future
to serve humanity in a land of fully democratic governed citizenry....

Horizon Oils Sands Project in Athabasca Oilsands, Albeta
File:Alberta tar sands.jpg
Wikipedia (for large image click on the hyperlink)
.......Athabasca oil sands on the banks of the river, c. 1900....
.......And photo below is of the same general site as above in 2009.....
 File:Athabasca oil sands.jpg
Wikipedia (for large image click on the hyperlink)
Mining operations in the Athabasca oil sands.
Image shows the Athabasca River about 600m from the tailings pond.

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Prof. Andrew Leach says the whole ethical-oil argument has pushed the finger-pointing too far.
Photograph by: Ed Kaiser, a The Journal, Postmedia News
.....Prof. Andrew Leach, a Economics Professor
at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada says: 
"the whole ethical-oil argument has pushed the finger-pointing too far...he could only name one company in the sector, Cenovus, that has no operations in any of the undemocratic states that are being criticized in advertising sponsored by the group, which calls itself ethicaloil.org. .This is an uneasy thing, I expect, for the companies and for (the industry association) and others, which is why you haven't seen too much engagement on this front..."
(Prof. Leach writes a popular energy, climate and oilsands blog...)
......Ethics of Canadian
oil companies overseas challenged....

.....U of A professor tells industry group to come clean.....
(From: Edmonton Journal, Alberta, Canada: September 22, 2011: By Mike De Souza, Postmedia News:
© Copyri© Copyright (c) The Edmonton Journal)

A University of Alberta economics professor has challenged a pro-oilsands industry group, endorsed this week by members of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet, to come clean on Canadian companies that are running operations in "conflict" regions of the world.

"I think it's a question worth raising," said Andrew Leach, an associate professor of natural resources, energy and environment at the Alberta School of Business.

    "The whole ethical oil (argument) has pushed this stuff too far." Leach, who writes a popular energy, climate and oilsands blog, said he could only name one company in the sector, Cenovus, that has no operations in any of the undemocratic states that are being criticized in advertising sponsored by the group, which calls itself ethicaloil.org.

The pro-oilsands organization has recently been targeted by legal threats from the Saudi Arabian government, which warned some Canadian media outlets not to run the ads which blasted the oil-rich nation's record on women's rights.
 
But Leach said many major companies in the oilsands, including CNRL, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Marathon, hell, Suncor and Total, have their own operations in areas that the marketing campaign would describe as "conflict regions" such as Nigeria, Libya, Iran or Yemen.

While federal cabinet ministers Jason Kenney and Joe Oliver both defended the advertising and criticized the Saudi Arabian government this week, Leach warned that the message could also cause headaches for the Canadian producers that have activities overseas.

"This is an uneasy thing, I expect, for the companies and for (the industry association) and others, which is why you haven't seen too much engagement on this front," Leach said.

A spokesman from the Oil Sands Developers Group, an industry association, could not immediately be reached for comment, but Alykhan Velshi, a former aide to Kenney who now writes the ethicaloil.org blog, suggested that these overseas operations should not damage the reputation of the Canadian product.

"Our campaign isn't about any one particular company, it's about the product," aid. "Look, there are publicly traded companies that operate in Canada in all sorts of industries that have shareholders from across the world and that doesn't taint the product itself.

So for example, (if there is) a Chinese individual who owns shares in a private highway, that doesn't change the fact that it's a Canadian highway."

Climate change scientists and academies of science from ever major country in the world say that human activity, mainly through the consumption of fossil fuels such as oil - regardless of where it's from - is dramatically changing the composition of the atmosphere, provoking changes in weather patterns that are causing damage to both ecosystems and the economy.

But statistics compiled by Environment Canada show that greenhouse gas pollution from oilsands companies, which require an energy-intensive production process, have jumped 300 per cent since 1990, exceeding those of all cars on Canadian roads, not including light-duty trucks, and cancelling out reductions in emissions from other sectors.

The latest federal data also shows that the oilsands producers are no longer reducing the pollution per barrel of oil produced, contradicting claims made in a separate industry-sponsored marketing campaign.

Melissa Melissa Blake, mayor of Wood Buffalo, who is featured in the ads sponsored by the pro-oilsands group, has said she was never asked for permission and was not pleased about the campaign.

She has urged all sides in the debate to stop exaggerating their claims and deal with the facts about the pros and cons of development.

.....and to all who reads the above
here is more Knowledge on different evolving forms of Truth
from some very wise brand names in known current human history....
FICTION IS OBLIGED TO STICK TO POSSIBILITIES.
TRUTH ISN'T.

~Mark Twain
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off
as if nothing ever happened.

~Sir Winston Churchill
How often have I said to you that
when you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable,
mmust be the truth?

~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
If one tells the truth, br /> oone is sure sooner or later to be found out.
~Oscar Wilde
Whenever you have truth,
it must be given with love,
oor the message and the messenger will be rejected.

~Mahatma Ghandi
 
.......and before you leave PVAF today
to come back to have fun with more
Life-sciences Knowledge....
....and once again the nagging for your own prosperity......make sure not to short-change yourself on your quest for life-sciences knowledge by studying overviews in hyperlinks on this webpage and the next...these hyperlinks are your free source of vast human knowledge depth - the depth that suits your lifestyle and daily needs to grow and prosper....



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