Sentences with phrase «as tar shale»

The second figure shows that if coal emissions were thus phased out between 2010 and 2030, and if emissions from unconventional fossil fuels such as tar shale were minimized, atmospheric CO2 would peak at 400 - 425 ppm and then slowly decline.

We can not burn all of the fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal and unconventional fossil fuels such as tar shale and tar sands) and release the CO2 into the air without creating a different planet.

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.

Total oil production, including «unconventional» sources such as tar sands and shale oil, soon started to grow again.

Yet governments and industry are rushing into expanded use of fossil fuels, including unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, shale gas extracted by hydrofracking, and methane hydrates.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

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

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).

What the CTL folks are doing — just like the oil shale and tar sands folks are doing — is trying to find a way to keep supplying energy to a business - as - usual model in a world of rapidly rising energy demands.

His study attributes the expected growth in oil output largely to a combination of high oil prices and new technologies such as hydraulic fracturing that are opening up vast new areas and allowing extraction of «unconventional» oil such as tight oil, oil shale, tar sands and ultra-heavy oil.

The carbon price will assure that we do not pursue absurd energy pathways, such as cooking the Rocky Mountains to drip oil out of tar shale.

Alternatives to traditional fossil fuels such as tar sands and oil shale deliver a lower EROI, having a mean EROI of 4:1 and 7:1, respectively.

Even if other production comes on line, e.g. from unconventional sources such as tar sands in Alberta or shale in the American West, their relatively high cost of production could permit low - cost producers, particularly Saudi Arabia, to increase production, drop prices for a time, and undermine the economic viability of the higher - cost competitors, as occurred in the mid-1980's.

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 shalAs 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 shalas well as exploit unconventional fossil fuels like methane hydrates, tar sands, and oil shalas exploit unconventional fossil fuels like methane hydrates, tar sands, and oil shale.

Quantitative policy implications have been defined: coal emissions must be phased out over the next 20 years, and unconventional fossil fuels, such as tar sands and oil shale, must remain undeveloped.

Moreover, in a world where fossil fuel resources are shrinking every year, and where the extraction of «residual» sources such as deepwater oil, tar sands and shale gas come with great environmental and safety risks, bioenergy production can also contribute to national energy security.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

BNP Paribas recently announced that it was restricting financing for oil and gas projects from shale and / or oil from tar sands as well as exploration and production projects in the Arctic.

Estimates of the carbon content of all fossil fuel reservoirs including unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale and various gas reservoirs that can be tapped with developing technology [114] imply that CO2 conceivably could reach a level as high as 16 times the 1950 atmospheric amount.

Other fossil fuels such as coal, shale oil, tar sands, and natural gas may meet some of our energy needs.

Meanwhile, numerous industry efforts are underway to further exploit stressed public lands and perpetuate fossil - fuel dependence through the extraction of coal, oil and gas, oil shale and tar sands, and liquefied natural gas development — as well as uranium mining and milling and the construction of energy corridors and long - distance electric transmission lines.

Tar sands mining and other extreme forms of energy extraction like Arctic drilling, shale fracking, and nuclear power generation send us in the exact opposite direction that we, as a civilization, must go to ensure global survival.

For politicians in Alberta and a handful of western US states the so - called unconventional oil source known as oil or tar sands and oil shale is the energy trump card.

Oil Shale Development a Climate Change + Water Disaster In case you hadn't heard, developing oil shale is just as bad (if not worse in some ways) from an environmental perspective as tar sands.

«Using tar sands and oil shale as energy sources while ignoring climate disruption, air pollution, water pollution, resource depletion, and conservation measures is like pissing in the wind.»

Now we are at the point that all the unconventional reserves, such as tar sands and shale oil, immediately start at the 40 % level, since we have to use a lot of energy to even begin to extract the underlying oil efficiently.

To my knowledge +1000 ppm is achievable if we're driven to extract the currently uneconomically viable hydrocarbon deposits such as tar sands and shale oil.

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.