Globalization contributes to sustainable prosperity for all people. By sharing ideas and opening trade between different countries‚ we can cut down on poverty increasing the number of companies competing for the sale of the same good or service. From a consumers perspective this is good because it causes prices to drop and the quality to increase in order to win the consumers business. For lower income people this makes goods more affordable making there money go farther in improving there quality
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Development of Oil Sands in Alberta Instructor: Dan Murray Yifan Wang University of Waterloo 15‚ February‚ 2013 Summary A controversy around the development of oil sands in Alberta is developed in this report. Potential factors of its development‚ including economic‚ social‚ and environmental factors‚ are taken into consideration. All the information contained in this report is retrieved from other materials‚ such as peer review‚ journals‚ government reports‚ and online news. All the points
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What extent does globalization contribute to sustainable prosperity for all people? There can be many different opinions on this topic‚ like how not all people can sustain prosperity. Globalization can help a large group of people or hurt a large group of people‚ people that can afford the product that is shipped over is more likely to maintain sustainable prosperity‚ same as for the people that are selling. Then there is the people who can not afford to buy these products and those who do not
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I am against developing the Alberta Oil Sands because of how it affects people’s health‚ there is a limited supply of it‚ and how it affects the environment. Firstly‚ the health of those who live around the Oil Sands is negatively affected. A study made by the Alberta Cancer Board in 2009 showed that people who lived about 250 kilometers away from a tar sands development were experiencing higher than normal rates of cancer (ForestEthics). This study indicates that there is a correlation between one’s
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The Alberta Oil Sands and How It Affects Us Ellie (Pei-Ju) Chen Student ID 3021681 ENV-2603 Professor Bryan Osborne University of Winnipeg Table of Contents “The Price of Tar-Sands Oil”.......................................................................………………………………………………. p3 “Oil Sands Development Contributes Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds to the Athabasca River and Its Tributaries” …………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. p4 “Waste Streams of Mined Oil Sands:
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Consumption in Alberta In general it takes about 2 to 4.5 barrels of water‚ most of which is withdrawn from the Athabasca River‚ to produce one barrel of oil. While the amount of water consumed per barrel of oil produced has been declining‚ a 2006 Government of Alberta report warned that there simply may not be enough available water to meet the needs of all planned oil sands projects while maintaining adequate stream flows. The Impact on Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change Alberta is responsible
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“...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence‚ empathy‚ equity‚ personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed.” Jonathon Porritt Globalization and sustainability are forces that are in constant competition. In this global game there emerges a clear victor and an inevitable loss. As a political‚ social‚ and economic force‚ globalization has expanded to encompass
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aAlberta Oil Sands Today in Alberta‚ a huge economic development is evolving in the Athabasca oil sands. Oils sand is a natural mix of sand‚ clay‚ water‚ bitumen and any other minerals. This combination forms heavy oil that must be treated before it can be employed as usable fuels like gasoline. There are many methods that are currently employed in order to produce fuel from the oil sands. The oil industry is also constantly working on developing new technologies. However‚ at the
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of the Alberta tar sands worthwhile‚ knowing its devastating effects on the environment? There are very valid points for both arguments‚ being them economical‚ political‚ environmental‚ or moral. The mining of bitumen is not something that is sustainable for the environment‚ or the companies involved. Although these open-pit mines produce much of the world’s oil‚ people should consider paying more at the pumps rather than destroying the only world we have to live in. The tar sands in Alberta essentially
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Alberta Tar Sands Sustainability Report Introduction Tar sands are a combination of clay‚ sand‚ water‚ and bitumen. As a type of unconventional petroleum deposit‚ tar sands are found in many places worldwide‚ the largest deposits are found in Alberta‚ Canada. The Alberta tar sand deposits contain more than 70.8% of the world ’s reserves of natural bitumen which representing 40% of the world’s combined extra-heavy crude oil and crude bitumen reserves. It is the only bitumen deposits that are economically
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