My friends and countrymen to the North have tar sands reserves in Alberta with hundreds of billions of barrels at current prices, and are sitting on a totalresource countable in trillions of barrels.
The well-established pattern of such development suggests that the natural gas discoveries to date represent only a fraction of the total recoverable resource.
The unconventional-gas bonanza has roughly doubled the gas resource base, a measure of the total gas in the ground rather than what might be economically recoverable.
The resource estimate signalled the Revenue Zone holds a total of 3.7 million gold equivalent ounces at a grade of 1.1 grams per ton gold equivalent ounces.
Total, more than 200 different natural resource exploitation projects are currently being targeted by protesters, who complain about environmental damage and water pollution.