Flashback: Alberta Oil Sands -- There's A Reason Western Europe, Et Al, Pushed The Global Warming Story -- October 12, 2021

Now that I understand "oil" a bit better, after a decade of blogging, these earlier posts make more sense.

There's a reason western Europe, et al, pushed the global warming story. The energy gap between North America and Europe was incredibly wide. Economically, Europe would have been devastated. 

Look at this, posted back in the very early days of the blog:

Alberta Oil Sands

Alberta's oil sands hold 1.8 trillion barrels of bitumen, but only about 9% is recoverable using existing technologies. April 19, 2013. [That makes it easy: about twice the reserves of the Bakken, and about twice the rate of recovery.]

Industry fact sheet on Canadian oil sands. 

See also Kearl Oil Sands.  

From March 18, 2014: RBN Energy: an incredible story.

Western Canada’s vast bitumen sands are estimated to contain reserves of 575 billion bbls of recoverable crude oil. The largely untapped bitumen carbonate formations lying beneath the oil sands could contain another 243 billion Bbl of recoverable reserves. When added to untapped tight oil shale reserves these huge hydrocarbon deposits potentially could make the Province of Alberta the world’s largest crude oil resource. Today contributor Mike Priaro concludes his description of Alberta’s crude oil reserves.