Supplementary videos

Petroleum refining basics
Horizontal Shale Oil Drilling: fracking hype from Breitling
Tar sands controversy: Keystone XL pipeline
Tar sands pipeline spill risks (NRDC)

Extra credit readings

• Oil Without End? Revisionists say oil isn't a fossil fuel. CNNMoney 2/17/03
• ExxonMobil Oil and Gas Exploration Is Root Cause of Whale Deaths in Madagascar Huffington Post 9/26/13
• Oil & gas industry spills happen all the time CBS News 4/12/11
• Louisiana Seafood: In wake of BP spill and river diversions, oysters show strain 7/13/13
• Cuadrilla admits drilling caused Blackpool earthquakes The Telegraph 3/4/12
• Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas Pollutes Water Wells Scientific American 5/9/11
• The Golden Age of Fracking in Europe and China Time 5/21/12
• Greenpeace slams Israeli firm for oil plan Jerusalem Post 1/04/12
• Energy sector taps bitumen, sticky rival to oil sands Business News Network 7/8/13

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