Water Or Oil? Troubling Trends

What is news is Pembina Institute.s careful documentation of the extent of current water withdrawals, and the implications for rising energy prices on future water demand. Add to this North American Free Trade Agreement water rights held by US-based oil and gas companies operating in Canada, and you have a recipe for disaster for Canada.s farmers. Seven percent of water allocations in Alberta is controlled by the oil and gas sector. When surface water is taken out of the equation and only groundwater considered, this figure jumps to 37 percent. Unlike water used for agricultural or municipal purposes, most of this water never returns to the watershed. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:SnfWvZlXaTYJ:www.pembina.org/pdf/publications/TroubledW7_Summary.pdf+Water+or+oil%3F+Troubling+trends&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1 http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/retrieve/757/etd1643.pdf

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