To: Bearcatbob who wrote (151195 ) 5/15/2011 11:17:53 AM From: Dennis Roth 1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) | Respond to >> when does the take away capacity limit the ability to produce oil in Alberta. <<Canada's tar sands - Muck and brass economist.com A bitumen bottleneck By 2014, says Jackie Forrest of IHS CERA, new production from the tar sands will have filled the available coking capacity. That will create a bottleneck and hinder upstream spending. David Schindler, an ecologist at the University of Alberta, has long been publishing peer-reviewed studies showing that airborne emissions from smokestacks on upgraders, which convert the bitumen into synthetic crude oil, have polluted the Athabasca, the giant river that flows through the tar sands. His findings gained more publicity in September, when he offered photographers deformed turbot and other species pulled from the river. The images prompted a federal investigation. “I’m surprised it wasn’t mounted on a block of bitumen,” said an oil executive of Dr Schindler’s piscine trophy.
