Sentences with phrase «alberta oil sands development»

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Tuesday vote was taken hard in Canada where development of the oil sands is important to Alberta's budget.

The Alberta government's revision of the Mine Financial Security Program (MFSP) continues down a wrong - headed path where the province is willing to take on environmental risk to enable oil sands development.

In March of 2008 the Canadian Boreal Initiative, the Pembina Institute and the Alberta Research Council published a report recommending the use of offsets in the oil sands region of Alberta as one tool to control the terrestrial impacts of oil sands development, including the impact on caribou.

While provinces other than Alberta are projected to benefit, modelling by the Canadian Energy Research Institute projects that 94 per cent of the GDP impact of oil sands development will occur within Alberta.

In contrast, the Alberta government has a much more significant vested interest in oil sands development, and greater policy and regulatory influence.

Oil sands development is a matter of provincial government policy: in a government policy paper (the Mineable Oil Sands Strategy) issued a few years ago (and since recalled), the core area of the oil sands resources in Alberta was designated a «sacrifice zone», within which it was acknowledged that significant and irreversible environmental impact would be permitted to occur, to enable the realization of the significant economic benefits such development promisOil sands development is a matter of provincial government policy: in a government policy paper (the Mineable Oil Sands Strategy) issued a few years ago (and since recalled), the core area of the oil sands resources in Alberta was designated a «sacrifice zone», within which it was acknowledged that significant and irreversible environmental impact would be permitted to occur, to enable the realization of the significant economic benefits such development promisOil Sands Strategy) issued a few years ago (and since recalled), the core area of the oil sands resources in Alberta was designated a «sacrifice zone», within which it was acknowledged that significant and irreversible environmental impact would be permitted to occur, to enable the realization of the significant economic benefits such development promisoil sands resources in Alberta was designated a «sacrifice zone», within which it was acknowledged that significant and irreversible environmental impact would be permitted to occur, to enable the realization of the significant economic benefits such development promised.

And there's analysis of key turning points in the development of the oil sands, crucial to understanding what is unfolding in Alberta.

First, the Board had ruled that it would not consider the environmental and socio - economic effects associated with upstream activities, the development of the Alberta oil sands, and the downstream use of oil transported by the pipeline.

Seeing an opportunity to offset some of the emissions from its oil - sands development, the province of Alberta committed Can $ 2 billion (US$ 2.1 billion) to sequestration in 2008 and is now working out agreements with commercial partners on four projects.

Kate Galbraith has a post about an article in Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper that the country's prime minister, Stephen Harper, will seek a climate - change agreement with President - elect Barack Obama that would protect development of Alberta's oil sands.

The Canadian media are full of speculation that the Canadian government will push for special treatment and protections from global warming regulation of its fastest - growing source of greenhouse gas emissions — the tar sands oil development in Alberta, where much of Canada's oil is derived.

According to the Pembina Institute, a Canadian non-profit think tank that advances clean energy solutions, «95 % of woodland caribou habitat in northeastern Alberta is to be lost in order to promote oil sands development.»

As part of its effort to persuade the United States to accept the Keystone pipeline and the oil sands fuel it would carry from Canada, the province of Alberta is advertising itself as an environmental leader at the cutting edge of clean energy development.

Opponents say it will foster the development of Alberta's oil sands, which will in turn emit more heat - trapping carbon dioxide when burned and thus exacerbate global warming.

White House, environmentalists and U.S foundations seek to block all oil sands development, by Duggan Flanakin and Redmond Weissenberger Oilfield workers in Alberta, refinery workers in Texas and countless factory workers just learned that the White House will not allow construction of an oil pipeline that would bring over half a million barrels of oil -LSB-...]

Oil sands development is having severe negative effects on the health of communities in Alberta, in particular the traditional stewards of the lands, the first nations of northern Alberta.

Useful quantitative measures of the increasing ecological impacts are provided by the history of oil development in Alberta, Canada for production of both conventional oil and tar sands development.

Despite environmentalists» campaign to end oil sands development, crude from Alberta will be developed with or without the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, says Gary Doer, Canada's ambassador to the U.S..

She reports there are about 960 American companies that support Alberta oil sands activities, with thousands more jobs that could be created if the U.S. would take steps to promote greater oil sands development — such as approving the Keystone XL pipeline.

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.

Canada has great plans for controlling greenhouse gases, except of course where it might hurt oil sands development in Alberta.

Alberta, which is home to virtually all of the country's oil sands development, has also worked to defend — and insulate — its biggest industry against greenhouse gas legislation.

Opponents say the proposed $ 5.4 billion pipeline would be a catalyst to unlocking oil sands development in Alberta, Canada, where a dense, sticky hydrocarbon called bitumen is harvested by strip - mining and energy - intense steam - based techniques.