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Oil sands: destroyer or savior?
Featured | The New York Times | Green Inc. | Tom Zeller | September 06, 2009
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“The vast, gooey mixture of clay, sand, water and, most notably, bitumen — a hydrocarbon paste that, with a fair amount of work, can be separated from the granular stuff and eventually refined into a variety of petroleum products — has the potential to produce upwards of a trillion barrels of oil, by some estimates.
Accomplishing that, however, is a profoundly expensive, dirty and energy-intensive affair. [...]
The question in the United States, then, is how to weigh the disadvantages against the very real benefit of securing access to a substantial — and friendly — source of foreign oil for decades to come.”
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