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The raw product extracted from Alberta’s tar sands is known as bitumen, and it is as vis nike air cb 34, cous as cold molasses. It can’t be transported in pipelines unless it is processed or diluted. (Exxon Mobil says the oil that spilled in Mayflower was not diluted bitumen, but heavy Canadian oil. But kids air max ken griffey fury, there may be little practical difference between the two, since the company did confirm the presence of dilutants in the oil. And Canada’s National Energy Board says western Canada heavy crude contain Nike Air Max 87, s some bitumen.)

Questions on the properties of diluted bitumen, known as dilbit, first came to the fore in 2010 when a pipeline operated by Calgary’s Enbridge burst near Michigan’s Kalamazoo jordan 16, River, contaminating 40 miles of river and wetlands with dilbit. Workers are still cleaning up the site, at a tab now running north of $800 million, making it the costliest onshore oil spill in U.S. h air jordan 10, istory.