Resources
Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue provides an objective and independent platform for stakeholders to engage in a discussion of the benefits, costs and impacts associated with oil sands development.
Through fact-based discussion with peers and access to an objective research agenda, participants in the Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue gain a shared understanding of the tradeoffs, limitations, impacts and policy choices associated with development of the oil sands.
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Greenhouse gas intensity of western Canadian condensate (Appendixes available upon request)
May 2023
The trajectory of oil sands greenhouse gas emissions: 2009-35 (Appendixes available upon request)
April 2022
What is different about differentials? Understanding the price of oil in western Canada
December 2020
Greenhouse gas intensity of oil sands production (Appendixes available upon request)
September 2018
Why the oil sands? How a remote, complex resource became a pillar of global supply growth
July 2015
Comparing greenhouse gas intensity of the oil sands and the average US crude oil (Appendix available upon request)
May 2014
US State Department on Keystone XL draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
April 2013
Extracting economic value from the Canadian oil sands: Upgrading and refining in Alberta (or not)?
March 13
Oil sands, greenhouse gases, and US oil supply: Getting the numbers right 2012 Update
November 2012