Sentences with phrase «more tar sands»

In addition, 150 Indigenous Nations in Canada and the US have signed the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion in opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline and all other attempts to allow more tar sands production, including Enbridge's Line 3 and TransCanada's Keystone XL pipelines.

in opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline and all other attempts to allow more tar sands production, including Enbridge's Line 3 and TransCanada's Keystone XL pipelines.

She added the pipeline would mean more tar sands expansion that will impact First Nations everywhere by fueling climate change.

One way tar sand supporters will continue to push for more tar sands development is to continue their efforts to try to re-brand the tar sands from dirty oil to «ethical oil».

«The question is why we should continue this exemption given that it's clear tar sands oil is more likely to spill because it's more corrosive... and more and more tar sands is coming into the U.S.,» said Lorne Stockman, research director at Oil Change International, an advocacy group that supports clean energy.

More tar sands production means more carbon pollution — and it doesn't take a fancy graph to see that.

But we should especially avoid using more tar sands oil that would be transported through projects like the Keystone XL pipeline.

Yet, that pipeline project is still important because it will help bring more tar sands to market than would otherwise be available.

Grand Chief Serge Simon of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake said, «On behalf of the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to carry even more tar sands oil out of Canada.

Critics of the TransCanada pipeline have warned of potential spills in America's heartland as well as the climate impacts of allowing more tar sands oil, which has a higher carbon footprint than conventional sources, into the US and other markets.

Landscapes will continue to suffer as we move to more tar sands, oil shales, etc..

The Canadian Bank of Montreal has revised Canada's economic prospects downward, as more tar sands production facilities close.

But in the end, increasing pipeline capacity to get more tar sands oil to market is a clear contradiction to Canada's promises under the Paris Agreement.

Not exact matches

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

The State Department announced today that it will delay the decision - making process on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, citing the need for more clarity around the project's route.

In order to make the tar sands bitumen marketable, producers have to heat the thick sludge to 500 degrees, which requires plenty more energy.

That means the tar sands oil has to travel all the way to the Gulf of Mexico — more than twice the distance.

Canada's clean energy industries generate more direct employment than the tar sands / oil sands, Clean Energy Canada reported this week.

Further reading: Robyn Allan, «Oil sands «money left on the table» and more myths» Robyn Allan, «Bitumen's deep discount deception and Canada's pipeline mania» Oil Change International, «Tar sands: the myth of tidewater access»

Tar sands producers don't need more pipeline capacity to maintain current production levels, only to enable even further expansion.

The Church of England has announced its selling off # 12m of investments in thermal coal and tar sands... More

That crude is more likely to explode than tar sands crude, though a number of recent rail accidents involved tar sands crude exploding.

Appel says a modified version of thermal depolymerization could be used to inject steam into underground tar - sand deposits and then refine them into light oils at the surface, making this abundant, difficult - to - access resource far more available.

And that's just for the tar sands close enough to the surface — no more than 80 meters deep — to be mined.

Supporters argue the pipeline will boost the economy, while environmentalists say there could be spillages and that it will encourage the exploitation of tar sands oil, which emits more CO2 than regular oil.

More than 50 top European and U.S. scientists have written to the European Commission president urging him to press ahead with a plan to label tar sands as more polluting than other forms of oil, in defiance of intensive lobbying from CanMore than 50 top European and U.S. scientists have written to the European Commission president urging him to press ahead with a plan to label tar sands as more polluting than other forms of oil, in defiance of intensive lobbying from Canmore polluting than other forms of oil, in defiance of intensive lobbying from Canada.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- More than 50 top European and U.S. scientists have written to the European Commission president urging him to press ahead with a plan to label tar sands as more polluting than other forms of oil, in defiance of intensive lobbying from CanMore than 50 top European and U.S. scientists have written to the European Commission president urging him to press ahead with a plan to label tar sands as more polluting than other forms of oil, in defiance of intensive lobbying from Canmore polluting than other forms of oil, in defiance of intensive lobbying from Canada.

For every barrel of extra oil obtained from tar sands as a result of the pipeline, global oil consumption would increase by 0.6 barrels, because the extra oil would lower oil prices and encourage people to use more.

The tar - sands oil — essentially diluted bitumen — is more acidic than regular oil and contains more sediment and moves at higher pressures.

But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.

Converting petroleum from tar sands into a type of oil is more costly because it requires strip - mining or the injection of steam to drain the petroleum.

Whether such a quantity can be produced from tar sands and oil shale at a price near (never mind below) $ 30 per barrel is highly uncertain, but more suggestive of Lomborgs confusion in any case is that the price he mentions is higher (according to his own Figure 65) than the price of oil has been for any prolonged period in the last 120 years except for 1979 - 86, in the aftermath of the second (1979) Arab - OPEC oil - price shock.3 This means resources of tar sands and oil shale that would be economically exploitable only at prices around $ 30 per barrel are in fact more expensive than oil has been for nearly all of the last century.

Nathan says high prices have made it increasingly economically viable to extract more unconventional forms of oil, in particular the asphaltlike tar sands (also known as oil sand, or extremely heavy crude oil) plentiful in northern Alberta, Canada.

«Other options like rail or truck are not feasible for the transportation of large quantities,» said Elizabeth Shope, anti — tar sands advocate with environmental group the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a conference call with reporters, noting that such alternative transportation more than triples the cost of moving tar sands oil.

I took some heat myself for posting a You tube video, in the early days of the fire, suggesting the tar sands themselves make super fires more dangerous.

Countless evacuees are showing up on the news with absolutely nothing, after ten years or more working in the gold mine that was the tar sands.

oil is getting more difficult to get, fracking or deep offshore are not environmentally friendy neither tar sands are, so using oil as efficiently as possible is a responsible choice.

In their more ambitious works they incorporated a broad range of unorthodox materials, including enamel paint, wax, sand, pebbles, and tar, to create unusual surface textures.

Moreover, I think you are failing to take into account that while Oil is running out, we have more than enough coal, oil shale, tar sands, etc. to continue to cook our goose.

The book also mentions Norway as a shining example regarding the tackling of climate change, but the world is more nuanced; Norway also pushed for more oil drilling in the Arctic, and is involved in tar sands in Canada, as well as oil exploration in Libya.

If this happens, a combination of even more subsidies to the oil companies and technological breakthroughs could easily enable both tar sands and shale oil - and then we may be really in trouble.

Gasoline from traditional sources, including these harebrained schemes to go offshore and onto ANWR, is inseparable from tar sands and oil shale, which are far more abundant and destructive (as Raypierre pointed out).

Although if every last drop of tar sand oil is burned I suspect we are looking at more than 10 degrees celsius easily enough.

When more energy is spent getting at the oil than the energy you extract, you stop drilling, so I don't see much future for tar sands, deep sea wells, etc. once the conventional sources get too expensive.

It also makes some false solutions look a lot more appealing to the public, like liquid coal or deforestation diesel, while providing the incentive to use «unconventional oil» such as Canadian tar sands or Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil.

Now we're in a time when experts debate whether the peak of production has been reached, or whether ever - higher prices will simply drive exploration ever more to the fringes for new sources — be they tar sands or under the Arctic Ocean seabed.

The more immediate problem is the upswing of production of the tar sands in Alberta, Canada.

The Yellowstone River oil spill continues to spread (both physically and metaphorically) with more and more landowners reporting their property has been contaminated with oil from the ruptured ExxonMobil Silvertip pipeline and questions raised about how much oil would have spilled if a similar leaked occurred on the controversial proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

While options remain open (the possibility of doing more upgrading in Alberta and the use of existing pipelines and rail transport to the US) nixing KXL will be a significant impediment to accelerated development of the tar sands in the medium term and an increase in the chance that the Athabasca bitumen will stay in the ground for ever.

And, of course, tar sands oil produces three times the amount of CO2 as more convential oil.