The oil, once obtained, is of high quality. it goes through a up-grader.
The oilsands, over a period of time, will use new techniques to ease the
environmental impact.

Before the oilsands where ever used to obtain oil, vast natural areas of
oil contaminated land in Alberta would result in coating and killing
birds if and when they landed in it. Nature and natural environment has
never been the soft sweet sound of romantic violins sunsets sometimes
evoke.

Insanity is drilling for oil deep in the gulf, within the territorial
waters of the USA, without proper safeguards. The cost per barrel from
that well will work out to be considerably more than any obtained from
any one of the oilsand projects.

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