Sentences with phrase «canadian tar sands»

The Canadian tar sands industry was a major part of that chapter, being at that time the leading unconventional oil source.

It makes perfect free - market sense that Chinese investors would want to invest a lot of money into Canadian tar sands oil extraction ventures - especially if they had some inkling that the downstream products could come their way by freighter.Pipe dream indeed.

David Gordon, the director of policy planning under former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, says the chances are about four - to - one» that President Obama will approve the Keystone XL pipeline from the Canadian tar sands to oil refineries in Texas.

Now if it could just find a way to keep its solar industry in business, and stop promoting Canadian tar sands, we'd really have something to sing about.

And Canada's leaders» reliance on tar sands to drive the economy may be one of the biggest economic miscalculations of our time, as Canadian tar sands operations are being hammered by plummeting oil prices.

In - situ partial combustion of Canadian tar sands allows the energy return on energy invested to be less than unity because it can be burned by pumping oxygen to the oil.

The trio took top honors in the category for their work on «The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of,» a project that began with a seven - month investigation into the million - gallon spill of Canadian tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River in 2010.

There's increasing visibility of the movement in the United States to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, minimize the expansion of Canadian tar sands and fight climate change, but what do Canadians think of all this?

Hansen was taking part in a civil disobedience action at the White House organized to halt the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will bring dirty oil from the Canadian tar sands down to US refineries in the Gulf.

No one is saying that the EROI of Canadian tar sands applies to the whole world because it is about the only place where oil is being produced in this manner.

It carries material very similar to the Canadian tar sands crude projected to be delivered by the proposed and hotly controversial Keystone XL pipeline through the Great Plains.

In a video message released by TarSandsAction.org, Sen. Sanders said, «Building this pipeline will keep America addicted to oil, and while it might be a good idea for Koch Industries, which supplies and refines large volumes of Canadian tar sands oil, it is a bad deal for our country,» said Sen. Sanders.

In addition to tea party congressional Republicans, opposition to continuing the wind credit comes from the American Energy Alliance, a Washington, D.C. - based industry group linked to petrochemical interests that promote expanded drilling for fossil fuels, including in the protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and approval of the proposed XL pipeline to bring Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in Texas and the Gulf Coast.

The Canadian tar sands industry - government group Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program doesn't much like a recent report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that tar sands projects are responsible for elevated

The letter, circulated on July 2nd, calls on U.S. corporations with trucking fleets to join 19 leading companies in avoiding fuel from refineries that take Canadian tar sands.

This time its target is Secretary Clinton; its quest is to get her to stop a new pipeline that would send Canadian tar sands oil into the US.

So this story — reported by Cleantechnica — is about perfectly designed to make my little TreeHugging heart sing: Norwegian oil and energy giant Statoil has spent the end of 2016 selling off its assets in Canadian tar sands, and securing rights to develop a gigantic offshore wind farm off the coast of New York State.

We've written so many times about the unmitigated environmental disaster that is tapping unconventional sources of oil, such as Canadian tar sands and US oil

I hope I need not tell you that the development of the Canadian tar sands is an unmitigated environmental disaster.

Al - Naimi cited alternative fuels such as ethanol and Canadian tar sands as reasons for a new oil price floor.

If agreed by states, LCFS could have a significant impact on the sale of fuels derived from Canadian tar sands in the United States, regardless of any decision the Obama administration makes over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

Furthermore, the Canadian tar sands oil, while certainly «dirtier» to extract than traditional oil sources, releases roughly 15 percent more CO2 per barrel than conventional oil.

The implication for expensive, high risk and high carbon fuels such as Canadian tar sands is that over the long haul, in a world that is responding to climate change, neither price nor demand will support the rapid growth that is currently planned for by industry and the Canadian government.

The Canadian tar sands oil industry produces some 1.5 million barrels a day of this dirty, highly polluting crude.

In its report, EPA seemingly compliments the State Department for confirming that Canadian tar sands oil is carbon intensive when compared to other heavy crudes, due to increased emissions associated with extracting and refining it.

Seven years ago, Exxon Mobil won approval from the government to reverse that flow and link up with pipelines owned by Enbridge and the Koch brothers to carry Canadian tar sands crude south.

Oil and gas major ExxonMobil said new reserves in the Arctic and Canadian tar sands must be exploited, moves scientists deem incompatibe with tackling global warming.

A possible scenario is not much happens with US coal but the Canadian tar sands keep coming.

Endorsed by the Lummi Nation, the 2,500 - mile binational trip will travel from South Dakota and the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route, home to the Pacific Northwest before turning back and winding north to the Canadian tar sands.

the pipeline is not going to determine whether the Canadian tar sands are developed or not.

«Ducking questions about the Canadian tar sands or drilling in the Arctic makes everyone worry we're going to see eight more years of an «all of the above» energy strategy, which is what we do not need to hear in the hottest year ever measured on our planet.»

The oil poured out of rupture in an ExxonMobil pipeline that was carrying Canadian tar sands crude.

Included in these are inspection and maintenance records about the Pegasus pipeline, where an enormous rupture erupted tens of thousands of barrels of Canadian tar sands.

He argued that using Canadian tar sands — which he called some of the «dirtiest oil on the planet» — would «make it much less likely for human civilization to succeed in meeting» that goal of leaving oil and other fossil fuels untapped.

It is designed to capture around 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from a plant that turns heavy Canadian tar sands into useable products.

Oil Change International has launched a new online tool today that tracks the flow of Canadian tar sands crude oil to North America's refineries.

Or, in the words of the head of the American Natural Gas Association, referring to the bitter struggle between activists and the Canadian tar sands industry over the building of the Keystone XL pipeline, «Call it the Keystone - ization of every project that's out there.»

«Unconventional» is almost a code - word for dirty... such as the Canadian tar sands — as you saw the 60 Minutes special — which increase the total greenhouse gas emissions from gasoline substantially.

In Canada, the dirty energy industry lobby has been hard at work creating whitewash campaigns to help sell Canadian tar sands to the rest of the world, even claiming that they are producing «ethical oil,» whatever that is.

The SEIS concluded that, with or without the KXL pipeline, the Canadian tar sands will be extracted and transported to market, whether by rail or via an alternative pipeline through Canada.

The first shipment of highly polluting Canadian tar sands oil to Europe is due to arrive in Spain today.

«We urge the State Department to do a better job in analyzing the effect that Keystone XL would have on the development of the Canadian tar sands and the additional carbon pollution that would result, as well as the effect that Keystone XL would have on the quantity of carbon pollution produced by the U.S. transportation sector.

Companies with fleets of cars and trucks have a critical role to play ensuring that as America raises efficiency and embraces renewable fuels, we also turn away from the dirtiest, most carbon - intensive sources of oil — Canadian tar sands.

Last May, we brought the Pacific Climate Warriors, Pacific Island activists organizing against fossil fuels, to the Canadian tar sands to build solidarity with Indigenous allies.

Nor is oil produced from the Canadian tar sands as dirty from a climate perspective as many believe (some of the oil produced in California, without attention from environmentalists, is worse).»

As the editorial argued, «the pipeline is not going to determine whether the Canadian tar sands are developed or not.

Petroleum Coke: The Coal Hiding in the Tar Sands By: Oil Change International Lorne Stockman Published: December 2013 The Canadian tar sands have been called the «Äúmost environmentally destructive project on earth», with good reason.

Those include pipeline safety, consideration of alternate pipeline routes, and the impact the pollution from U.S. refineries processing Canadian tar sands will have on the poor who live nearby.

Hughes based his calculations on the 25.6 billion barrels of Canadian tar sands oil that are currently under active development.

In 2007, BP invested in Canadian tar sands, prompting criticism that it was «recarbonizing» itself.