Canada's Oil Sands – Part 1

This is the first in a two-part series about Canada’s oil sands. In this post, I will talk about a recent American Petroleum Institute (API)-sponsored media trip I made to see Canada’s oil sands, and give a little background on material being extracted. In the second part of the series, I will talk about future oil sands production and some issues related to future imports, including environmental questions.

I should mention that while I went on the trip with API, the sources I am using in these two posts are broader than just information on the trip. I will link to some of these sources as I go along. Arguably this post is mostly from the point of view of oil companies, but it seems to me our knowledge base regarding oil sands is so poor that we need to start somewhere.

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