Toxico Oil Spill Outline
A. Attention Getting Device: In the Wake of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill calamity, another potential environmental disaster is already in the making.
B. Thesis Statement: Around the Athabasca Lake region the cancer rate is becoming alarming: 30 percent above the Albertain provincial average. The culprit is suspected to the toxic reservoirs where the effluence from the oil industry’s operation is collected.
C. Preview of Main Points: The massive-scale extraction of "black oil," underway for years now, seeks to suck out the remaining 170 billion barrels beneath the Boreal forest, of which huge swaths are destroyed to get to the oil underneath. Massive quantities of freshwater are used to "steam out" the viscous petrol from the tar-like sands. The Process turns the earth into toxic sludge and gives off vast amount of C02 …show more content…
Main Point One - Toxic Waste
1. Evidence: Catching poisoned and deformed fish, often reeking of stench of putrefied petroleum
2. Evidence: operations and the high incidence of cancer in the surrounding region
3. Evidence: toxicity levels, if the levels of toxins in the air, water, the fish and the animals high enough to have an impact on health.
Transition –Researchers and biologists (hired in some cases by the mining companies themselves) carry out independent studies to pacify the concerns of the local population. They often conclude that the rising levels of these toxins in the water supply are mainly due to a natural occurrence and has little or no connection in the oil or mining operations nearby.
B. Main Point Two: Health Authorities vs. Oil/Mining Companies
1. Evidence: Health Authorities maintain that the high content of toxic chemicals exists in the regions river naturally.
2. Evidence: also uses vast amounts of water in the extraction process. Mining carcinogenic chemicals (cyanide, arsenic, mercury) is used to separate the ore from the precious minerals that the drug up, then
B. Thesis Statement: Around the Athabasca Lake region the cancer rate is becoming alarming: 30 percent above the Albertain provincial average. The culprit is suspected to the toxic reservoirs where the effluence from the oil industry’s operation is collected.
C. Preview of Main Points: The massive-scale extraction of "black oil," underway for years now, seeks to suck out the remaining 170 billion barrels beneath the Boreal forest, of which huge swaths are destroyed to get to the oil underneath. Massive quantities of freshwater are used to "steam out" the viscous petrol from the tar-like sands. The Process turns the earth into toxic sludge and gives off vast amount of C02 …show more content…
Main Point One - Toxic Waste
1. Evidence: Catching poisoned and deformed fish, often reeking of stench of putrefied petroleum
2. Evidence: operations and the high incidence of cancer in the surrounding region
3. Evidence: toxicity levels, if the levels of toxins in the air, water, the fish and the animals high enough to have an impact on health.
Transition –Researchers and biologists (hired in some cases by the mining companies themselves) carry out independent studies to pacify the concerns of the local population. They often conclude that the rising levels of these toxins in the water supply are mainly due to a natural occurrence and has little or no connection in the oil or mining operations nearby.
B. Main Point Two: Health Authorities vs. Oil/Mining Companies
1. Evidence: Health Authorities maintain that the high content of toxic chemicals exists in the regions river naturally.
2. Evidence: also uses vast amounts of water in the extraction process. Mining carcinogenic chemicals (cyanide, arsenic, mercury) is used to separate the ore from the precious minerals that the drug up, then