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1. The story is wrong. It says the pipeline will carry oil...

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 11:24 PM

Dec 2012

That sand tar is not oil. It is thick tar. Think of dirty asphalt. Dirty as in nasty chemicals that need to be dealt with.
It has to be heated to get it out of the sand, which takes lots of power. Then diluted before it will flow well enough to even put it into the pipeline. They have to mine this "oil" like coal. Oil is is not.
And to top it off, the refined "oil" will be put on takers in texas and shipped to China. If this stuff is so great, why doesn't Canada, use their own resources and use it in Canada. Or sell the after refining, finished product to us?

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Pipeline foes to send 'Grinch' to governor's house [View all] Omaha Steve Dec 2012 OP

The story is wrong. It says the pipeline will carry oil... RC Dec 2012 #1

Where the tar in the pipeline will come from Berlum Dec 2012 #2