Tar Sands Oil Extraction - The Dirty Truth
Tar sands is pretty nasty stuff. It requires 3 barrels of water to extract 1 barrel of oil and leaches toxic chemicals. The Reddit user, jonnypondwater posted this video on the website because he had decided to quit his job for moral reasons. Under a post entitled “I just quit my [very well paying] job in Northern Alberta, Canada because I didn’t want to be a part of this: (video)”, he added some commentary:
“My job is probably already filled. The oil sands will probably continue to expand and be extracted for the next 30+ years. It is that sort of ignorant “oh well it’s going to happen anyway” attitude that is sending the environmental state in a downward spiral. Me quitting my job was a personal/moral decision I made because I didn’t want to be a part of the wide destruction and contamination of the environment in that area. But hey, maybe I’m just naive. People need to think differently I reckon.”
If you are having the engineers working on a project quit for moral reasons, you have a huge problem that creates a huge message: Stop tar sand production to protect future generations.
(Source: treehugger.com)
Tar Sands Oil Extraction - The Dirty Truth
Tar sands is pretty nasty stuff. It requires 3 barrels of water to extract 1 barrel of oil and leaches toxic chemicals. The Reddit user, jonnypondwater posted this video on the website because he had decided to quit his job for moral reasons. Under a post entitled “I just quit my [very well paying] job in Northern Alberta, Canada because I didn’t want to be a part of this: (video)”, he added some commentary:
“My job is probably already filled. The oil sands will probably continue to expand and be extracted for the next 30+ years. It is that sort of ignorant “oh well it’s going to happen anyway” attitude that is sending the environmental state in a downward spiral. Me quitting my job was a personal/moral decision I made because I didn’t want to be a part of the wide destruction and contamination of the environment in that area. But hey, maybe I’m just naive. People need to think differently I reckon.”
If you are having the engineers working on a project quit for moral reasons, you have a huge problem that creates a huge message: Stop tar sand production to protect future generations.
(Source: treehugger.com)
Posted 3 months ago & Filed under tar sands, oil, keystone xl, canada, alberta,
