Oil is a resource that humans use in their daily lives. We find them everywhere, whether it's a child's lunch in a plastic container or the gasoline in your vehicle. People rely on oil to help them in their daily lives. Oil is practically present in everything. Surprisingly, oil plays a role in clothing production. If you go back to the machines that were used to make them, they most likely ran on oil or even the dyes that gave your outfit the bright colors were made from oil. So how are we going to get all the oil? The Alberta oil sands (also known as tar sands) are large deposits of bitumen and extremely heavy crude oil. They are located near the Athabasca River. The sands have an area of ​​more than 40,000 km2 (data from 2009); which is larger than Vancouver Island. Canada's deposits are the second largest after those in Saudi Arabia. The Athabasca deposits constitute the largest known deposits of raw bitumen in the world. Among Alberta's three major oil fields, it ranks first. The only thing they don't care about is being environmentally friendly. The environment is a major problem and many are trying to stop the exploitation of the tar sands. Alberta's land is being destroyed because strip mining is the way to extract crude oil from the ground. Surface mining is a mining technique that involves blasting rock to create a huge pit/pit in the ground. This steals animal habitat and destroys land that could be used for agriculture. The boreal forest has been cleared for strip mining, destroying 587 different species that live in the province of Alberta. Caribou are driven from their preferred habitat and find themselves caught between road construction and habitat destruction. The ...... middle of paper ......ada Struggles to ensure food security in northern communities | Cultural survival. Cultural Survival Inc., 2013. Web. January 9, 2014. .D. "Fishing." Hello BC. Destination BC Corp., 2013. Web. January 9, 2014. “Salmon Farming in British Columbia PDF.” The University of British Columbia| Faculty of Law. University of British Columbia, nd Web. January 9, 2014. “Stakeholder Relations (Oil Sands) Pdf. » CBSR. Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, May 2009. Web. January 9. 2014. .