Picture this: you come home one day to find construction workers digging up your backyard. Your prized petunias are strewn across the lawn. Your carp pond has been drained. And the smell of diesel from the site equipment hangs in the air.
Concerns expressed by some Fort Chipewyan residents over oil sands production have received quite a bit of attention in the media in the last two years.
Oil Sands Question and Response (OSQAR) is a blog created by Suncor Energy to support constructive dialogue about the oil sands. In our weekly posts, we talk about the energy industry, environmental impact, tailings management and reclamation, water management and the social and economic implications of oil sands development.
Our oil sands operations are near Fort McMurray, Alberta, where we recover bitumen from oil sands through mining and in situ operations. The bitumen from both operations is then upgraded to refinery-ready feedstock and diesel fuel. More about the where and the what of the oil sands can be found on our oil sands resource page.
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