nucklehead Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 The biggest toxic waste in north America are the Edmonton oilers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucklehead Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 And also, why does Zama City sound like someplace you'd expect to find in the UAEs or someplace like that, to me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Just curious, what kind of change do you think the government can make? Force people to stop driving? Don't you think that's a movement that has to start on the grass roots and work its way up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langdon Algur Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 My favourite part was the companies press release where they refered to the "Naturally occuring oil and gas" in the "produced water". Yup so we are suppose to think oh it can't be that bad cause oil is naturally occuring, seriously wtf?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 See Europe. Particularly the Scandinavian countries and Germany. Government incentives at corporate level for alternative energy production (solar/wind farms etc) and government incentives at the private level encouraging the installation of solar panels etc. It's called progressive government that is proactive to positive change. It's a stark contrast to our reactive wait until it's already a huge problem governing that people seem to prefer over here. Everyone's opposed to higher taxes on "negative" things like oil (gas taxes, carbon taxes etc) to subsidize alternative energy research, infrastructure etc. But they fail to realize that it's going to cost a lot more money 10, 20 and 30 years from now when we're FORCED to react to the problem. We should be utilizing the position of strength we have now with our oil industry to help pay for the infrastructure we'll need when it's gone. It would also be nice to not need as much of the stuff 10-20 years from now when it's value/cost will be even higher. Then we could sell it to countries who didn't plan as well for top dollar an use that money to keep propelling ourselves further in technology, alternative energy etc. At this rate though, I doubt it will happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 lol you guys realize there is thousands of miles of pipelines already and hundreds of oils tankers right? try this. Stop doing everything you do because Oil is used for everything. look at all the oil on the roads you drive on. everyday spill spill spill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Edit: Canada already generates more wind power than any Scandinavian country: http://en.wikipedia....ower_by_country By 2015, with Canada's increased capacity, we should blow them all out of the water in terms of production and have more generation than all scandinavian countries put together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 I would hope so!! Most of those countries aren't much bigger than Vancouver Island! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 But they have much more concentrated populations, which is a huge advantage when trying to limit green house gas output. An excessively large landmass is a huge disadvantage to energy efficiency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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