Sentences with phrase «sands fuels increase»

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However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

However, greatly increased future production of heavy oil, tar / oil sands and bitumen in Canada and other countries with huge anounts of these carbon intensive fuel resources is now in full swing.

Prior to that, Gatti directed the Get Off Oil program for Environment America, where he helped lead that organization's efforts to reduce oil consumption and oppose dirty fuels, including leading efforts to increase vehicle fuel efficiency and stop tar sands oil extraction, and helping to launch the Charge Ahead California campaign to increase access to clean cars.

While their influence and profits are still enormous, we can see from increasing shifts to unconventional extraction methods — hydraulic fracturing, deepwater drilling, tar sands mining, and other examples — that easily accessible fossil fuels are dwindling.

To increase supplies, most companies are looking to tar sands in Canada or converting coal or natural gas into liquid fuels, technologies that emit far more carbon dioxide than conventional oil does.

It expanded extraction using hydrofracturing in tar sands to increase activity in offshore oil drilling all over the world, thereby maximizing its rate of fossil fuel extraction and processing.

Use of oils sands bitumen and heavy crude with current processing technologies can significantly increase the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of vehicle fuel.

As recoverable oil reserves dwindle, there will be increasing pressure to convert coal to liquid fuels as well as exploit unconventional fossil fuels like methane hydrates, tar sands, and oil shale.

«Efforts to stay within a carbon budget, increase fuel efficiency, reduce costs and improve air quality mean that if capital continues to flow into oil sands, the projects risk becoming stranded assets», says Carbon Tracker's research director, James Leaton.

Their concern is with the increasing market for tar sands, so called dirty fuel.

G7 countries must not misuse the Ukraine crisis to fast - track further fossil fuel development — including increased shale gas trade and development and to opening Europe's doors to tar sands, the dirtiest fossil fuel in commercial production.

McKibben, who spent much of the summer organizing protests in Washington, D.C. against increased U.S. imports of oil from Canada's tar sands, called on Bellingham residents to join in another battle against increasing fossil fuel trade.

They also show that, even if we just hope to keep the increase below four degrees, then we canâ $ ™ t allow any expansion of the tar sands, and certainly no new pipelines such as Keystone and Northern Gateway to support any expanded use of fossil fuels.

Another critic argues that the studies fail to consider no - till cultivation of biofuel crops, which actually increase soil carbon storage, and that corn ethanol plants are converting to renewable energy, thus decreasing their emissions - meanwhile they are competing against fossil fuels like oil from tar sands that have an increased carbon footprint even compared to conventional gasoline.

«Efforts to stay within a carbon budget, increase fuel efficiency, reduce costs and improve air quality mean that if capital continues to flow into oil sands, the projects risk becoming stranded assets.»

The higher imports of tar sands, as a result of new pipelines in the US and Canada, would increase the average carbon intensity of Europe's fuels by 1.5 % in 2020, undermining the targeted 6 % decrease.