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The Complexities of Ship Breaking and the Alberta Tar Sands: Environmental and Economic Impacts

Ship breaking, the process of salvaging materials from decommissioned vessels, poses significant hazards to workers due to toxic substances and inadequate safety standards, leading to an average of one death daily. Meanwhile, the Alberta tar sands present both pros and cons: they can lower energy needs and provide economic benefits through royalties, yet they significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions and have detrimental effects on the environment. This multifaceted issue highlights the balance between economic benefits and environmental sustainability.

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The Complexities of Ship Breaking and the Alberta Tar Sands: Environmental and Economic Impacts

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  1. Social 10-1 Pages 270-275 By Sheldon Marquis, Drew Lafleur, Evan Mackenzie and Brighton Wagner

  2. Ship Breaking

  3. Ships age, just like humans. Eventually they get old, but where do they go when they retire? Some get sunk, and some get put into museums. But almost all of them go to a ship breaking yard. Ship breaking is the process of salvaging raw materials and goods from the ship before they go to the junkyard. The people that work in the ship breaking business have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Many toxic agents are found in ships in the ship breaking yards, and these toxins affect and devastate the health of ship breakers. Another contributor of ship breakers is the lack of safety standards associated with ship breaking. Many gases are trapped in air pockets all over broken ships, and the workers torches ignite these gases when they cut into the sides of the ships. An average of one death a day happens due to ship breaking. The costs for ship breaking are very high, enviromentally and economically. Only a few developing countries have shipbreaking yards nowadays due to the hazards associated with ship breaking. www.euronews.net/2009/11/05/making-shipbreaking-a-safer-craft/ (pg. 270-272)

  4. Alberta Tar Sands

  5. CONS The Albertan tar sand companies have goals to lower energy needs from the tar sands. This helps save money on production costs, and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Royalties from the tar sands are invested in projects and programs that benefit’s all Albertans. PROS The Albertan tar sands in have highly increased greenhouse gas emissions, this is terrible for our environment, this is affecting animals, water and many other things. Oil and gas are non-renewable source’s of energy unlike solar or wind energy. For every 3 barrels that is extracted from the tar sands one barrel is used in the process, this is not very efficient. One million barrels of oil is extracted from the earth everyday. Specialists predict that in 2030 this number will be five times as much.

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