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Report on Oilsands Emissions does not absolve Alberta Industry

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CALGARY - A study benchmarking full life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta`s oilsands against other crude oils refined in the United States doesn`t absolve the province from finding more ways to produce cleaner-burning oil, a spokesman associated with the research said Thursday.

The report compiled information from two separate studies to conclude emissions resulting from refining Canadian oil sands were approximately 10 per cent higher than international and domestic US sources, but were approximately the same as heavy oil produced in California.

"We`re here, this is where we are but we have a ways to go down, and we can go down and should go down," Eddy Isaacs, managing director of the government-created Alberta Energy Research Institute said. "This should not be seen as absolving the energy industry in Alberta to doing their utmost to get down to the levels as much as possible as low as possible."

The study was undertaken to provide a benchmark to decision makers on the full life-cycle of crude oils, from well to exhaust pipe, rather than having them rely on perception, he said.

"We don`t think we should be compared by ourselves, we think we need to compare with world crudes, and that`s what this study is trying to do," Isaacs added.

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