Numbers employed in different industries (Top 5)
Total number employed: 2.276.000
- Trade (607.600)
- Health and Social assistance (273.300)
- Construction (255.100)
- Professional scientific and technical services (175.600)
- 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
- Energy (25,5%,
- Finance and Real Estate (13,5%,
- Construction (10,8%,
- Business and Commercial (10,2%,
- 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
- 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