Conditions were good in the morning and The beach break down at la lora, 10 min walk South from Blue Surf Sanctuary Santa Teresa Surf Camp, was very good with some clean
barrels over the sand bar.
Not exact matches
Conventional crude oil prices are now below $ 50 a
barrel, and last week Royal Dutch Shell cited «uncertainties»
over pipeline shipments in canceling a $ 2 billion oil -
sands project.
Genscape oil analyst Carl Evans said that, even with crude prices below $ 50 (U.S.) a
barrel over the past two years, heavy bitumen production in Canada's oil
sands region has continued to grow.
«The pipeline would carry
over 500,000
barrels of raw tar
sands crude each day.
The price for a
barrel of bitumen, the tar - like oil
sands that comes from Alberta, fell to just
over $ 8 per
barrel this week.
Expect fast, hollow, thick
barrels that break
over sand — these are recommended for experienced surfers only.
Finally, Alberta is exporting well
over a million
barrels of heavy oil every day from these carbon - rich tar
sands to the U.S..
Personally, I don't believe that the oil
sands will ever be developed at a rate much higher than 5 million
barrels per day, primarily because at such a rate it won't be possible to meet even current environmental standards, let alone the inevitable higher standards that will develop
over the coming decades.
The key issue here — far larger than the debate
over a 17 % or an 84 % excess emissions per [
barrel] of tar
sands oil vs. light sweet crude — is highlighted by, [but] not put into full energy and climate context by, the compelling and depressing Charles Homans Foreign Policy article [link].
[3] A recent report by the U.S. - based Natural Resources Defense Council shows that if Europe does not act, its imports of tar
sands, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels, would likely skyrocket from about 4,000
barrels per day in 2012 to
over 700,000 bpd in 2020.
It's time to take a stand against the Keystone XL pipeline, a dangerous and destructive project that would pump
over one million
barrels of dirty «tar
sands» oil from Canada to the USA every day.
White House, environmentalists and U.S foundations seek to block all oil
sands development, by Duggan Flanakin and Redmond Weissenberger Oilfield workers in Alberta, refinery workers in Texas and countless factory workers just learned that the White House will not allow construction of an oil pipeline that would bring
over half a million
barrels of oil -LSB-...]
To put this in perspective, the Keystone XL pipeline would carry up to 830,000
barrels of heavy tar
sands oil per day (303 million
barrels / year), enough to supply the energy for
over 38 million cars, or the equivalent of 1.8 QBtu annually.
The Desmarais family and their Belgian partner, Albert Frere, are the largest shareholders in oil company Total, which hopes to take three billion
barrels of oil from the Alberta tar
sands over the next 30 years.
If the oil industry wants to pipe these dangerous tar
sands oils
over our water sheds and aquifers, putting our drinking supply and neighborhoods at risk, they should not only be required to pay into the cleanup fund, they should be paying far more than the 8 cents per
barrel they pay for conventional oil since these tar
sands oils are not just worse for the environment, but potentially pose a greater risk of spills and are even harder to clean up.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration predicts that Canada's oil
sands production will double
over the next five years, adding another 1.3 million
barrels a day.