[IPSM] Maps of all Tar Sands Development in Alberta

[Macdonald Stainsby]

Hopefully this is helpful for people in their work...

Macdonald

Maps of Tar Sands Development

The purpose of these maps is to show all existing development related to 
tar sands throughout Alberta for the first time. Many of the maps also 
include approved and/or proposed industrial development. It is likely 
that no authorities want to see all of the proposed development gathered 
in one place for others to see, interpret and be able to react to 
accordingly. Consequently there are no such government provided map sources.

These maps are designed to give a total accounting of the pace, scope 
and scale of industrial development across tar sands regions throughout 
Alberta. These maps use industry and government figures and projections 
for existing, approved and/or proposed footprints in all tar sands lease 
regions. The goal of these maps is to visually conceptualize the speed 
of existing development and also to illustrate the vast expansion of the 
In-Situ (or "Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage"-- Sag-D) systems that make 
up the vast majority of the Albertan Tar Sands Reserves. In-Situ 
projects consume about twice as much natural gas and water than the open 
pit tar sands mining operations. In some cases, In-Situ operates on much 
more dubious forms of energy-- such as burning "asphaltene" (a bitumen 
waste) and emitting far more greenhouse gases than natural gas.

http://oilsandstruth.org/maps-tar-sands-development