In 2014 there were 166 billion proven barrels of oil in the tar sands and extraction was going at a rate of 2.3 million barrels per day.
"The issue of fossil fuel extraction on public lands is going to be a key fight over the coming months.
"The fact that oil companies now have to go a mile under water and then drill another three miles below that in order to hit oil tells us something about the direction of the oil industry: extraction is more expensive and it is going to be inherently more risky," Obama said.
The prime minister is going "all out" for fracking, the extraction of shale gas that is transforming the energy market in the US.
And yet, as Anohni points out, identity politics in this "tipping point" era are increasingly used against us by big business as smokescreens to distract us from a culture of wealth extraction: They are going to try to convince us that they have our best interests at heart by waving flags for identity politics and fake moral issues.
Oil extraction has been going on in the UK since 1851, according to the United Kingdom Onshore Oil and Gas industry body.
While concepts and even laboratory work on evaluating and developing ISRU techniques such as oxygen extraction from lunar regolith have been going on since before the Apollo 11 Moon landing, no ISRU system has ever flown in space, and only recently have ISRU technologies been developed at a scale and at a system level that is relevant to actual robotic and human mission applications.
From stalking a lone player and trolling him with near-miss sniper shots, to kicking off spiralling cycles of rogue-agent bloodbaths by the extraction zone, the water-cooler moments are going to be way more numerous, and important, to this game than any bullshit that's built into the "story proper".
From stalking a lone player and trolling him with near-miss sniper shots, to kicking off spiraling cycles of rogue-agent bloodbaths by the extraction zone, the water-cooler moments are going to be way more numerous, and important, to this game than any bullshit that's built into the "story proper".
"The problem is: you got so many people thinking they are going to do extractions without much knowledge, when, really, it comes down to being a scientist".
