[Ost-news] Al-Jazeera: Alberta's heavy oil burden

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Alberta's heavy oil burden  
Alberta's oil reserves are seen as a long-term supply option for the United States

Al Jazeera's People & Power programme recently visited the Candian province of Alberta where the region's vast oil reserves are provoking both prosperity and opposition.

Much of the terrain is blanketed in trees but underneath the forests of the remote north of the Canadian province of Alberta are an estimated 174 billion barrels of heavy crude oil.

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    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/aljazeera-alberta039s-heavy-oil-burden

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