Sentences with phrase «about oil sands development»

If we're serious about oil sands development — and IHS» report strongly suggests Americans should be — then we should quit politicking to death the single biggest infrastructure project at hand that would facilitate oil sands transportation to the U.S.

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«We have environmental impacts now, and these impacts are about to get a lot bigger,» notes oil sands policy analyst Marc Huot of the Pembina Institute, an environmental group working for responsible development.

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

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.

Based on information and analysis about the North American crude transport infrastructure (particularly the proven ability of rail to transport substantial quantities of crude oil profitably under current market conditions, and to add capacity relatively rapidly) and the global crude oil market, the draft Supplemental EIS concludes that approval or denial of the proposed Project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area.

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.

Yet talk about pace and scale of development in Canada's oil sands is considered unspeakable — a blasphemy — in political and industry circles, even though oil sands projects are widely recognized as the highest - risk, highest - cost projects in the industry, and likely the first to be impacted as the noose of climate policy tightens.