Talk:Athabasca oil sands/to do

Estimated oil reserves *Projected amount of oil reserves for future use (if this makes sense, how long will the Athabasca oil reserves last at a specified consumption?) (WP:NOT)

Economic impact on the region *Besides having Fort McMurray become a boomtown, other economic influences such as it's influence on the Alberta economy in general (Albertans did just get cheques from the Klein government)
 * I'd say that has more to do with Alberta's conventional Natural Gas production. Kevlar67 05:11, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Include mention of how increasing labor costs have impacted other businesses, and how increases to the cost of living have affected Albertans
 * How much of the profit from oilsands production is staying in Alberta? In Canada?

Oil sands production *Figures are obviously wrong here : "opened its first mine, producing 30 million barrels per day (48,000 m³/d) of synthetic crude oil.". So when it opened it produced a 3rd of the global oil consumption!!! That was a great mine!!! --FrancoisD (talk) 17:43, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * This section seems to be more of a history of companies... is it suppose to be like that?
 * Obtain figures for worker injuries

Geopolitical importance
 * To settle the softwood lumber dispute, there was lots of talk about using the oil sands as a bargaining chip... would something like this be included?
 * Figures in this section are obviously wrong : "to build a 400-million-barrel-per-day (640,000 m³/d) pipeline". World overall consumption is roughly 80 millions barrels per day !!! --FrancoisD (talk) 17:43, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Indigenous peoples of the area
 * The indigenous peoples of the area take an active role (from what I've been told) in mining operations, in particular with land reclamation. If so, this should be included somewhere (defined role of indigenous people).
 * Native groups have opposed oilsands development in the past. More elaboration in the article is needed. (done)

Environmental impacts *Mention something more about land reclamation (Syncrude keeps 3 herds of bison on land being reclaimed!) (done, needs cite) *More discussion of greenhouse gas production in absolute numbers, and as a proportion of total Canadian output (done, needs cite) *Peat bogs and boreal forest as carbon sinks *Impact on species that were previously present in the area *Proposal for nuclear power plant to provide energy for oil extraction *Pollution of ground water reservoir
 * Net energy production of the oilsands after inputs are taken into account
 * Air pollution; just take a walk to the Northeast of Edmonton and you'll know what I mean


 * Struck off completed items LeadSongDog (talk) 22:49, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Update

This page is seriously needing some updating, as many projects have been delayed or canceled, and some are completed, or under construction --187.132.75.133 (talk) 01:45, 5 May 2010 (UTC)