Sentences with phrase «unconventional resources such»

We need our government to level with the public that alternatives to conventional petroleum, including unconventional resources such as oil sands and oil shale (if it can ever produced economically in the US), all cost more.

Not exact matches

Although the geological potential for unconventional resources appears to be substantial in Eurasia, the Middle East and North Africa, such resources are unlikely to be developed in the early twenty - first century, simply because conventional potential is so great relative to current and projected production that unconventional gas resource development is unnecessary.

Fully implement his Executive Order 13514 requiring all resource management agencies to fully consider climate pollution, like they do other types of pollution, prior to leasing or exporting onshore and offshore oil, gas, coal, and unconventional fuels sources such as oil shale and tar sands.

It has also led them to explore for and develop more carbon intensive unconventional fossil resources such as tight oil, with associated increases in emissions from flaring; thermal enhanced oil recovery, with increased emissions associated with producing steam, and oil sands, with increased emissions associated with extraction, upgrading and refining (Brandt et al. 2010).

Hydraulic fracturing is an essential process used in the development of unconventional resources, such as gas shale, shale oil and other tight formations.