Mired in Crude By Wayne Ellwood Matt Parks GGS-12(1) Mrs. Aliphat

Crude Oil These days crude oil is becoming more and more destructive to the earth every day. Mining removes the soil and sifts through it to harvest the oil that it is soaked with.

Crude oil from past to present Crude oil began to be used commercially about 150 years ago. Today Syncrude, one of the largest oil companies is harvesting over 170 million barrels of oil per year. To date there have been approximately 800 billion barrels of oil harvested from the earth.

Nature’s part on the subject With mining, hundreds kilometers of land are destroyed to harvest the oil. Where Suncor is currently mining, there is an estimated 300 billion barrels of oil. Spread out over 78,000 square kilometers. To harvest the oil that land will be completely demolished.

Is this what you want your land to become?

The money hungry Companies The oil companies have no thought of the nature that they are demolishing for each barrel of oil they harvest. Suncor has had a $1.8 billion expansion to increase their load to over 450,000 barrels of crude per day. Syncrude underwent a $5.1 billion dollar upgrade to increase their load to about 465,000 barrels per day.

The pollution There are several uses of oil. One of the common uses is in the home of a large amount of Canadian homes. That is simply to burn for heat, this causes quite a bit of pollution. People wonder why our winters are getting warmer, personally I think our massive consumption of fuels is a major cause of this.

Works cited Mired in Crude – Wayne Ellwood