Sentences with phrase «additional oil sands»

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First, Alberta will adopt an oil sands specific emission performance standard with a $ 30 / tonne carbon price applied to any additional emissions.

The additional boycott from Avon and others announced in early December just goes to show that the risks that the oil sands will lose its social licence increase.

Marc's conservative estimate is that new oil sands production associated with the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (just the expansion beyond the existing pipeline) would represent an additional 93 megatonnes of global GHG emissions per year.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated that Keystone XL tar sands oil would result in additional greenhouse gas emissions of 27 million metric tons annually compared with conventional oil.

The required additional fossil fuels will involve exploitation of tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking for oil and gas, coal mining, drilling in the Arctic, Amazon, deep ocean, and other remote regions, and possibly exploitation of methane hydrates.

I have remodled several kitchens with old cabnets using oil based paint, sanding between each coat of paint, thinning each additional coat of paint, etc etc..

[Nov. 18, 11:37 p.m. Updated Vaclav Smil, the Canadian resource and risk analyst, has written a potent critique of Obama's move, noting, among other things, «If there would be no oil - sand oil produced in Alberta to feed the XL pipeline and then refined in the United States and the products burned in American vehicles, then the Chinese would generate an additional mass of CO2 equivalent to that prevented burden in less than two weeks.»]

Canadian producers are now locked into U.S. Midwest and Ontario markets, which have limited capacity to process additional volumes of oil sands bitumen.

Although State considers it «unlikely» that approval or denial would significantly change oil sands extraction, the FSEIS, as a sensitivity case, estimates the KXL's incremental CO2 emissions under the assumption that all 830,000 bpd would be additional oil in the global supply.

All the people who are active against the additional carbon release from the processing of oil sands, should be required to drive their propane or CNG fueled hydraulic hybrid automobiles at the most efficient speed for the miles traveled and to live in the smallest houses needed for shelter and eat the simplest food and never take aircraft trips. . .

Approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would have only a marginal positive impact on the economics of the Canadian oil - sands industry, but could nevertheless trigger a rush of high - risk investment into additional projects that would rely heavily on rising oil prices, according to new research from the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

Facing proposed oil and gas regulations that would increase production costs by less than a dollar a barrel, the tar sands industry notes that its production is already on the edges profitability and adding a few cents per barrel in additional production costs would be very likely reduce production and revenue.

Adding a regressive charge the oil sands, one that bites harder at low prices than high prices, introduces additional cost and risk.

But according to government and scientific studies, all of these sources will yield at most a few million additional barrels of liquid fuels per day (this includes coal liquifaction [GTL], hydrogen, oil sands, oil shale, biofuels, and solar.).

Keystone XL Pipeline: A Potential Mirage for Oil - sands Investors shows «new Canadian oil - sands development is increasingly economically questionable without the additional export capacity that pipelines such as KXL would bring», says Mark Lewis, external research advisor to Carbon TrackOil - sands Investors shows «new Canadian oil - sands development is increasingly economically questionable without the additional export capacity that pipelines such as KXL would bring», says Mark Lewis, external research advisor to Carbon Trackoil - sands development is increasingly economically questionable without the additional export capacity that pipelines such as KXL would bring», says Mark Lewis, external research advisor to Carbon Tracker.

However, as co-advisor Mark Fulton says, «KXL will improve revenues in the short - term which means that it will help catalyse new investment, more oil - sands production and additional greenhouse gas emissions».

This revealed approval of the controversial Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline would only have a marginal positive impact of the economics of the Canadian oil - sands industry, but could trigger a rush of investment into additional risky high - cost, high - carbon projects, dependent on rising oil prices.

The required additional fossil fuels will involve exploitation of tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking for oil and gas, coal mining, drilling in the Arctic, Amazon, deep ocean, and other remote regions, and possibly exploitation of methane hydrates.

Additional escalation of the mining impact occurs as conventional oil mining is supplanted by tar sands development, with mining and land disturbance from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times greater than conventional oil production per unit area [152], but with substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].

A recent study by Adam Brandt of the Stanford University School of Earth Sciences notes that at $ 40 we can expect no more than one additional carbon - capture project in the oil sands, capturing 1.6 megatonnes of carbon.

The State Department estimates that oil sands oil has 17 % greater well - to - wheel CO2 emissions than average US crude, which corresponds to approximately 200 additional pounds of CO2 emissions per barrel relative to average US crude.

But this one consideration — the damages associated with the additional carbon emissions of oil sands oil — is effectively accomplished by denying the pipeline application.

Alberta's oil sands producers should be allowed to significantly increase their greenhouse gas emissions, even if that means forcing other sectors to take on additional expensive obligations to meet Canada's climate change targets, an industry executive says.

Mr. Coutu said it's necessary to look at those figures from a global perspective, because additional Canadian petroleum production from the oil sands would be replacing production - and emissions - from elsewhere in the world.

«KXL will improve returns in the short - term, which means that it will help catalyze new investment, more oil - sands production, and additional greenhouse gas emissions,» adds co-advisor Mark Fulton.

25 November — Approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would have only a marginal positive impact on the economics of the Canadian oil - sands industry, but could nevertheless trigger a rush of high - risk investment into additional projects that would rely heavily on rising oil prices, according to new research from the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

«New Canadian oil - sands development is increasingly economically questionable without the additional export capacity that pipelines such as Keystone XL would bring», says Mark Lewis, external research advisor to a report from Carbon Tracker, a think - tank focused on the investment risks posed by excessive fossil fuel extraction.