KCTS 9 Connects: April 10, 2009
Canadian Oil Sands
It is one of the biggest oil deposits on the planet, and right in America’s back yard. The Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada -- 50,000 square miles of heavy crude oil mixed with sand and clay. Major oil companies are already refining this oil to feed America’s voracious oil appetite.
But the process of extracting the oil is difficult and expensive, and, like strip mining, has major environmental impacts. We travel to the Athabasca Oil Sands to take a closer look. How much oil the U.S. is currently getting from our neighbors to the north? Are the Oil Sands a possible solution to reduce our dependence on Middle East oil? And the financial benefits versus the environmental costs of developing this resource and feeding our crude addiction.
Political Update: Austin Jenkins
An Olympia Correspondent with the Public Radio Northwest News Network will join us with the latest news from Olympia.
Roundtable: What To Do About The Economic Mess
Our weekly discussion covers this week's big events and gives us perspective on our unwieldy economic situation.
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