Geography Debate Given the carbon costs the Athabasca Tar sands should not be allowed to continue production. Not only will the cost rise when there is little oil left but the tar sands also create a lot of pollution. If they are not careful the cost is going to get outrageously high because they will eventually have to pay for some of the damage they cause with all the pollution they make. If they continue it will ruin the environment around the oil sands and they will hurt the environment in
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Chapter 5‚ “The Social Costs of the Industrial Revolution” p.49 Meikle‚ Scott‚ 1995: “Aristotle ’s Economic Thought”‚ Chapter 1 Walker‚ Amasa‚ 1886: “The Science Of Wealth: A Manual Of Political Economy”‚ Chapter VI Ingo‚ Schmidt‚ 2009: Athabasca University “Labour Studies 330 Study Guide”‚ Unit 1‚ p7 Marx‚ Karl‚ 1847: “Wage Labour and Capital”‚ Chapter 9
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the environment. Pollution is caused in the production of bitumen‚ as well as in its consumption. The first documented European discovery of the tar sands in the Athabasca region of Northern Alberta was made by Alexander Mackenzie in 1773.1 Over one hundred years later in 1899‚ Charles Mair and a party of Dene natives explored the Athabasca area by request of the Canadian government.1 Mair and his party stayed at the northern fur trading post of Fort Chipewan.1 Following his visit to the region‚ Mair
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Kayla Butt Donald Burke LBST 1D01 October 6‚ 2008 Conditions We Deal With Everyday for ‘Freedom’. In Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel Nervous Conditions the author Depicts Nyasha‚ the daughter of rich educated Babamukuru‚ as a troubled hybrid character who can’t accept herself due to her internal struggle with hybridity. Looking to gain insight and self-awareness based on her mixed cultural background‚ Nyasha challenges herself to take control of her own life. The statement in the introductory
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Obtaining my Health Administration degree through Athabasca University opened many career opportunities for me. Upon completing my degree I was successful in being hired as a Corporate Services Manager for two hospitals and a health clinic; North Wellington Healthcare. The position allowed me to be involved
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Throughout my travels in Canada‚ I’ve met many people with differing opinions on the issue of the “Tar sands” or “Oil sands” (I shall use both unambiguously) development. Environmentalists (like myself) and concerned citizens in Canada‚ as well as the international community‚ decry that the largest industrial energy project on the face of the planet is destroying future generation’s right to clean soil‚ water‚ air‚ biodiversity and most importantly a stable climate. As well as strong local economy
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constructs seduced an impressive following. Attracting large audiences‚ Simmel’s lectures must have been like his innumerable papers and essays on the term he coined‚ microsociology‚ charged with humanistic sensitivity. The “transition crisis” (Athabasca: 271) that surely every member of the social whole felt‚ yet could not define at the time‚ must have contributed to his popularity amongst those without much serious academic sociological knowledge. While Simmel was regarded in his day as eccentric
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Whitney Johnson-Jackson LBST 2212-112 Ms. Cochran February 14‚ 2012 The Color of Water Reflective Writing 1 Throughout my reading of this prolific non-fiction novel‚ one thing that seems to keep appearing frequently in my reading is the burden of secrets and their effects‚ more specifically with Ruth and her Jewish family. Ruth’s family was kept a secret for the majority of her own children’s adolescent years. Her desire to never speak of the relatives that claimed her “dead” seemed to haunt
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20 June 2014 Say No to Keystone XL Pipeline America is the largest consumer of oil than any other country and a lot of our oil comes from foreign countries. An oil pipeline project has been proposed from TransCanada called “Keystone XL Pipeline”. It is a pipeline system that will transport the world’s dirtiest fuel tar sands oil to the U.S Gulf Coast and Midwest refineries. This pipeline would cross six states in the U.S which are Montana‚ South Dakota‚ Nebraska‚ Kansas‚ Oklahoma‚ and Texas. This
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References: Athabasca Oil Sands. (n.d.). Wikipedia. Retrieved May 25‚ 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_Oil_Sands Jean Laherrerem‚ J. (2001). Estimates of oil reserves. Retrieved May 25‚ 2009 from http://www.peakoil.net/publications/estimates-of-oil-reserves
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