Sentences with phrase «alberta tar»

The Enbridge Northern Gateway Project will extend a pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to the Pacific Coast in B.C., creating 4,000 construction jobs during a time when housing construction has slowed to a near - halt, and giving access to whole new markets.

The Mikesew Cree and Athabasca Chipewan First Nations live along the Athabaska River, downstream from the Alberta tar sands, a project which affects almost every aspect of their daily lives.

The Kinder Morgan project is part of a matrix of pipelines, refineries and supertankers all geared towards rapid expansion of the Alberta tar sands.

One of those areas was the Alberta tar sands.

In 2013 I became involved with a newly formed group of Burnaby residents protesting a plan by Kinder Morgan, a Texas based oil company, to dramatically expand the export of diluted bitumen from the Alberta tar sands to oversees markets through a small marine terminal in Burrard Inlet, just miles from the City of Vancouver.

Kinder Morgan, a US - based oil and gas infrastructure corporation, is attempting to triple the capacity of its Trans Mountain Pipeline, running from the Alberta Tar Sands to Vancouver's Burrard Inlet.

The Alberta tar sands, which cover 55,000 square miles in western Canada, are estimated to contain approximately 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen, a sticky, thick form of petroleum that can be extracted through both surface mining and drilling.

It currently takes as many as 3.1 barrels of water to produce one barrel of crude oil from the Alberta tar sands, according to the paper.

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A Reddit user who quit his job at the Alberta tar sands project shares a video that demonstrates the devastation he was no longer willing to be complicit in causing.

Considering the considerable official enthusiasm for the highly polluting and carbon intensive Alberta tar sands, this really isn't so surprising: According to correspondence obtained by the Pembina Institute, the

Alberta Tar Sands Not all barrels of oil are created equal.

The companies operating in the Alberta Tar Sands don't usually have many bragging rights when it comes to being green.

Alberta Tar Sands went under the knife recently too, emerging as «Oil Sands.»

It has not been a good week for the flacks in Calgary who stomp on little old ladies to keep the lid on news about Canada's environmental embarrassment, the Alberta tar sands.In Sydney, Australia, they call it» black gold with a black heart.»

Experts have predicted a «high risk» of rupture on this aging oil pipeline that has recently been approved to bring Alberta tar sands crude to Eastern Canada.

TreeHugger has filled a great many virtual pages on the topic of Alberta tar sands, detailing time and time again the high environmental costs of extracting this so - called unconventional source of oil, which the Albertan government has bet

The government and Enbridge Inc. are stepping up their game to push through what is largely seen as an alternative to Keystone XL: the Northern Gateway pipeline project, which would carry oil from the Alberta tar sands to the Canadian west coast for export to China.

However this artist has become a very vocal opponent of the Canadian government's stance on climate change and the Alberta tar sands to the point -LSB-...]

And he would bring the Keystone XL project to fruition as quickly as possible — locking in America's addiction to the dirtiest oil source of all, the Alberta tar sands.

The pipeline approval comes two months after Obama rejected a proposal for the 1,300 - mile Keystone XL pipeline from the Alberta tar sands oil fields to Texas after large protests by environmental groups.

It's no coincidence that both the Chicago area BP refinery and the Superior Wisconsin Murphy refinery are planning massive expansions to work with Alberta Tar Sands extracted crude oil.

We've highlighted many times the unmitigated environmental horror of the Alberta Tar Sands, but one aspect which we haven't pointed out is the

The converted natural gas pipeline ships 435,000 barrels of Alberta tar sands crude each day to Conoco - Phillips» refinery in Wood River, Illinois.

During his 10 years as Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper... was an aggressive booster for the Alberta tar sands, retreated from the country's greenhouse gas reduction commitments, eviscerated the Environment Ministry and muzzled scientists and ratcheted up government surveillance of activists.

We just aren't certain anymore, now that it is spending $ 3 billion to buy into the stupid fuel, oil from the Alberta Tar Sands, global warming's new Ground Zero.

Looks like Alberta Tar Sands extracted crude oil will be refined in the Lake Superior watershed as well.

Contradicting previous industry - and government - backed studies about the source of pollution occurring downstream from Alberta tar sands projects, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that

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As expected, investment in Alberta Tar Sand (what the industry likes to refer to as «oil sands») developments are being cut back a bit; but tar sands developers still expect to remain profitable, even if oil hits US$ 60 / barrel.

It's no secret that Treehugger's not a big fan of extracting energy from the Alberta Tar Sands.

Which is all fine and good — I entirely support the actions Forest Ethics recommends Fortune 500 companies take — but I'm not entirely sure there's yet a controversy about the Alberta tar sands, at least not in the public consciousness.

and George Bush, perhaps with an eye towards the fuel riots going on around the world, jumps and proposes the new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: 1) drilling offshore, 2) drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 3) adding refineries, and 4) extracting oil from shale, which makes the Alberta Tar Sands look environmentally benign.

The Alberta tar sands is taking another hit as two major retailers — Whole Foods and Bed Bath & Beyond — announced on Wednesday that they are moving to avoid using the petroleum products sourced from the tar sands for transporting product, according to a ForestEthics press release.

Only 50 % Reduction in Upstream Emissions Possible According to the report Carbon Capture and Storage in the Alberta Tar Sands, CCS «has limited potential to reduce upstream emissions to levels comparable with the average for conventional oil,» with «even the most optimistic estimates from industry experts» showing reductions in the 10 - 30 % range in the medium term and up to 50 % in the long term.

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The Alberta Tar Sands are called by some the most destructive project on earth, and their toxic tailing ponds kill birds and are poisoning downstream native communities.

«Integrity of Creation» Being Sacrificed for Economic Gain in Alberta Tar Sands: Canadian Bishop

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This isn't the first time someone has wanted to mate nuclear power and tar sands extraction: Alberta Tar Sands Go All High Tech and Futurist

Plus... Shell announces first carbon capture project in the Alberta Tar Sands; Arctic oil and natural gas's high cost to limit their global share.

The private automobile is responsible for all of this, and we all are seeing in the Gulf of Mexico and the Alberta Tar Sands the lengths that we have to go to keep the private automobile running.

We've covered Hyperion Power's (sort of) portable nuclear power module a couple of times and have given fairly extensive coverage to the environmental disaster that is the Alberta Tar Sands.

As time passes, all of them can expect more dry holes, reliance on expensive extraction techniques, cries of «Drill Baby Drill» (in new languages), messier extraction & refining processes (think Alberta Tar Sands), and, oh yeah, seriously higher prices at the pump.

Most recently, he completed a trek to the notorious Alberta tar sands, which is the second largest deposit of oil in the world.

Trailer via Downstream on Babel (website) Earlier this month, the National Geographic's visually - stunning and critical article on the Alberta tar sands caused a firestorm of negative publicity for both the Canadian government and the multi-billion dollar industry responsible for what some call the «most destructive project on Earth.»

In October 2012, nine U.S. state legislators went on an industry paid trip to explore the Alberta tar sands.

Publicly described as an «ALEC Academy,» documents obtained by CMD show the legislators were accompanied on a chartered flight by a gaggle of oil - industry lobbyists, were served lunch by Shell Oil, dinner by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and that the expenses of the trip were paid for by TransCanada and other corporations and groups with a direct financial interest in the Alberta tar sands and the proposed Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline.

The Desmarais family and their Belgian partner, Albert Frere, are the largest shareholders in oil company Total, which hopes to take three billion barrels of oil from the Alberta tar sands over the next 30 years.