B.C. Natural Gas Boom Fuels Alberta Tar Sands Production

Heavy oil production in Canada’s petro province of Alberta is powered, in part, by a glut of cheap natural gas in North America, which gas producers in B.C. have helped to create,” he writes. “B.C. is also helping to prop up Alberta’s oil industry by shipping it lots of extremely valuable ‘gas liquids’—byproducts of natural gas which are essential to dilute heavy oil or bitumen so that it can move more readily through pipelines.
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