Edmonton / Fort Chipewyan / Bury / Brazzaville / /
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Royal Bank of Scotland / Royal Dutch Shell / Total / Republic of Congo / Petrotrin / Royal Bank of Trinidad / Tobago14 / BP / Royal Bank of Canada / Tatneft / Jordan Oil Shale Company / Statoil / Eni / /
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Switzerland / Tonga / Ecuador / Venezuela / Mongolia / Estonia / Tajikistan / Egypt / Cuba / Thailand / Colombia / France / Brazil / Canada / Australia / United Kingdom / Trinidad / China / Israel / Ethiopia / Trinidad and Tobago / Iraq / India / Germany / Italy / Kyrgyzstan / Serbia / Iran / Sweden / Kazakhstan / Poland / Congo / Indonesia / Turkey / Russia / Azerbaijan / Jordan / United States / Syria / Angola / Democratic Republic of Congo / Nigeria / Georgia / Madagascar / Morocco / /
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USD / / /
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Environmental Issue / Business Partnership / Force Majeure / M&A / /
Facility
Pembina Institute / /
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gas flaring / oil capital / potential unconventional oil development / energy efficiency measures / natural gas / palm oil / state-owned oil / energy / greenhouse gas emissions / conventional oil / oil deposits / oil producers / oil industry / unconventional oil exploitation / oil shale reserves / conventional oil reserves / conventional oil resources6 / sands-like oil / oil corporations / oil prices / controversial heavy oil involvement / dense oil / tar sands oil / heavy black viscous oil / oil shale / oil-thirsty governments / improved energy efficiency / energy security / oil projects / oil coming / recoverable oil shale / renewable energy / times more greenhouse gas / oil / oil shale leases / denser oil / Heavy oil / oil field / oil shale deposits / unconventional oil / oil developments / mining / oil demand / /
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Athabasca River / Boreal Forest / La Brea Pitch lake / /
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Pembina Institute / Congo’s government / Heinrich Böll Foundation / Chávez government / Bank of Canada / World Energy Council / Greenpeace / World Development Movement / European Union / United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization / Alberta Cancer Board / Moroccan government / Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries / United Nations / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Friends of the Earth / /
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Alberta Cancer / Caribou / Emily Coats / Sarah Wykes / James Hansen / Harold Vinegar / Macdonald Stainsby / / /
Alberta’s tar sands are already causing unprecedented global and local destruction. This briefing highlights the alarming scope of the unconventional oil in other parts of the world. If even a few of these deposits are