Unit 3: Entry 1, Canada's Oil Drilling Practises

When we began this unit, we started talking about Canada and its oil drilling practises. These habits often prove to be more harmful than benefiting. While drilling oil can bring in new corporations, money, and job opportunities to Canada and Canadians, it also poses a lot of environmental issues. Such as oil spills which kill marine life, pollute the waters, and are very difficult and costly to clean up. In just 2011, there was a disastrous oil spill of 28 000 barrels of oil. There have also been many reports of humans facing health issues due to oil spills. For instance, when one area of Alberta experienced an oil rupture, reports of seizures and other health issues increased. There is also now a rising conflict between First Nation people, the Canadian government and the oil corporations. Since, the First Nations want to preserve the environment and advocate for animal rights, they also don't want their homes to be ruined or impacted from the oil drilling. However, the government supports the corporations because it wants to gain more money. The government keeps allowing oil companies to continue treating the environment the way they are, and until they don't improve something, then no progress will be made. For now, many conflicts will and are arising from oil and the environmental consequences that it carries; hopefully, one day, we will live on a planet where our resources and natural environment are cared for and appreciated. 

Here is a visual describing the oil "cases" that the SOPF (Ship Source Oil Pollution Fund) had to deal with in 2016 and 2017:











The sources of this blog are:
1. https://clearseas.org/en/who-pays-oil-spill/ (where the visual is from)

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