Sentences with phrase «burning oil shales»

Company documents discovered during an eight - month investigation by InsideClimate News show that Exxon Research & Engineering estimated that producing and burning oil shales would release 1.4 to 3 times more carbon dioxide than conventional oil, and would accelerate the doubling of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by about five years.

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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.

Estonia uses local oil shales, obtained by opencast mining and burnt in outdated and polluting plants.

Not only does Q fail to consider the carbon to be released by burning coal but he also totally ignores the tar sands, oil shales, and heavy oils that are being targeted to supplement remaining oil supplies.

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.

... Finally, in spite of depletion concerns in regards to shale oil wells — that they burn out fast and furious — they do burn faster upfront but they continue at a «normal» production rate for up one, two and possibly three decades.

The U.S. shale oil industry hailed as a «revolution» has burned through a quarter trillion dollars more than it has brought in over the last decade.

Very cheap natural gas to burn to turn that dirty oil into valuable transport fuels, thanks to the shale gas boom;

The roasting process generally involves burning oil that has previously been extracted from the shale, so shale oil results in a very large net level of carbon dioxide release to the atmosphere.

(1) Putting aside actual so - called fossil carbon (i.e. shales, coal, oil, gas tar sands) which are all relatively unreactive geologically overall (unless those pesky humans dig them up and burn them) there are in fact (today) substantial pools of potentially more reactive «fixed» carbon other than the active biosphere's biomass.