Economy of the Interior Plains: Luca, Ana, Andrew

Numbers employed in different industries (Top 5)

Total number employed: 2.276.000

  1. Trade (607.600)
  2. Health and Social assistance (273.300)
  3. Construction (255.100)
  4. Professional scientific and technical services (175.600)
  5. Forestry, Fishing, Mining, Oil and Gas (155.800)

Source:  http://work.alberta.ca/labour/2016-monthly-labour-force-statistics.html

 

How much the industries make: GDP by industry

  1. Energy (25,5%,
  2. Finance and Real Estate (13,5%,
  3. Construction (10,8%,
  4. Business and Commercial (10,2%,
  5. Retail and Wholesale (9,3%,

Source: https://www.albertacanada.com/files/albertacanada/SP-EH_highlightsABEconomyPresentation.pdf

 

How is the environment affected?

  • There may not be enough water because they use lots of water to make one barrel of oil

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  • they have to cut down trees for the pipelines
  • they have to build new roads to reach the oilfields
  • more than a million barrels of crude oil flow out of Aberta´s oil sands every day

Source: http://mapleleafweb.com/features/alberta-s-oil-sands-key-issues-and-impacts

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/jun08/feature_tar_sands.asp

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