Sentences with phrase «by tar sand»

The pipeline itself is meaningless, what matters, from a climate perspective, are all the additional GHG emissions that would be caused, directly and indirectly, by tar sand development.

Expertise needed: (1) engineers with knowledge about pipeline risk and reliability, (2) scientists with knowledge of climate change that could be caused by tar sands development.»

We report on contamination from the millions of gallons of toxic wastewater generated each day by tar sands mines.

To this day, over 40 miles of the river are still contaminated by tar sands after over a billion dollars was spent on clean up.

It should acknowledge the environmental risk of the pipeline and the larger damage caused by tar sands production and block the Keystone XL.

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].

But these communities and many, many more across North America — including those affected by tar sands refining, pipelines, and rail transportation, and people living at the source of tar sands extraction in Canada — are standing up and calling for an end to the pipelines, the rail terminals, and the tar sands mining that harms our health, our water, our land, and our climate.

Although governments and the oil industry claim that all of the land disturbed by tar sands development will be reclaimed, little reclamation has already taken place.

Even with higher allowable concentrations in Alberta, these thresholds were frequently exceeded by tar sands operators in recent years — with an increasing trend.

For instance, only 0.15 % of the area disturbed by tar sands mining has been certified as reclaimed by the provincial government.

And it could potentially get uglier with the online release of Downstream, a new film that brings home the harsh realities of communities affected by the tar sands.

We must continue to speak up with our brothers and sisters of the Bear Lake Cree Nation, with all the First Nations, and with all the communities across the U.S. and Canada affected by tar sands.

Carbon Capture and Storage has been thrown around by tar sands developers as the solution to their pollution problem.

In any case the environmental degradation imposed by tar sands extraction is severe, and certainly I would personally be very opposed to doing more than extract enough oil for vital needs, which in any case seems to be it's realistic capacity.

In the video above photographer Garth Lenz shares shocking photos to explain the scale of destruction caused by tar sands oil extraction.

Our communities» water, air and land is being compromised by tar sands operations, which Kinder Morgan's new pipeline will only exacerbate.

Not exact matches

Climate change, driven by use of fossil fuels like tar sands, is causing extreme weather events around the globe.

Over the last few days, posts by Bill McKibben in the Guardian and by NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen on his own website at Columbia have again brought forward the statistic that, «the tar sands are estimated to contain at least 400 GtC (equivalent to about 200 ppm CO2).»

He used the term «tar sands,» one the advocates of Canada's bitumen sector have long argued is, by itself, biased against the «oil sands.»

And International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol recently suggested that Canada should meet the challenge by expanding production in the Alberta tar sands and opening up the B.C. coast to oil and gas exploration.

Posted by Jeff Rubin on July 28th, 2010 under SmallerWorldTags: auto industry, carbon emissions, carbon policy, china, tar sands • 8 Comments

It was like Dix was haunted by classic BC NDP campaign gaffes throughout recent history... «restraint is over,» «can we start again,» «axe the tax» — so he decided not to say much of anything in order to avoid stepping into the, um, tar sands.

Now they want to relive the glory days by increasing the amount of oil flowing from the tar sands at any cost.

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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.

They point to an article that you wrote in March, I think, of 2012 in Policy Options, where you basically said, dirty oil, the tar sands it's called, dirty oil and the future of our country, where you argue that the development of the, as you use the word, tar sands, it's become a political term, by the way, as you know, is basically not necessarily good for the country, in fact it takes jobs away in the manufacturing sector of Ontario.

The break - even price of tar sands oil is around $ 100 per barrel if transported by rail, according to Anthony Swift, a staff attorney at NRDC (which publishes

The first potentially false claim made by Mr. Young was that, «if the tar sands plan goes through until the end, the industrial area will be the size of England.»

To understand the destructiveness of a toxic, tar sands spill, Google and read, «Michigan oil spill effects could be repeated here,» by Michelle Barlond - Smith.

A review by ActiveHistory.ca describes the book as an essential text on the history of Alberta's tar sands.

West Coast Environmental Law is working to prevent the expansion of the tar sands by opposing pipelines and tanker projects in BC in order to protect our watersheds, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, our climate, and the human communities that rely on them.

On paper, the TransCanada Corporation now has the Trump administration's blessings to add hundreds of miles of pipeline to allow hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude produced by the Alberta tar sands to flow daily into the U.S., a permission twice denied by President Barack Obama two years ago (by veto and by outright denial of its permit), but it's premature to assume the project will actually get built.

Recent cancellations of Alberta tar sands / oil sands projects point to the uphill battle the industry will face as innovation transforms the global energy economy, Jerry Oppenheim of the New Climate Economy project told an event last month hosted by Corporate Knights and Sustainable Prosperity.

The will to overlook accelerated climate change caused by the extraction of tar sands oil, the destruction of the carbon sink that is / was the boreal forest, and the continued burning of fossil fuels to power trips to the corner store for a creamy, etc..

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

For every barrel of extra oil taken from tar sands as a result of the pipeline, world oil consumption would rise by 0.6 barrels, as the added production would lower prices (Nature Climate Change, doi.org/t52).

For every barrel of extra oil obtained from tar sands as a result of the pipeline, global oil consumption would increase by 0.6 barrels, because the extra oil would lower oil prices and encourage people to use more.

There is no knowing the future trajectory of tar sands output now that its production capital, Fort McMurray in Canada, has been devastated by wildfire after unusually dry weather some blamed on global warming.

Of the 6 mb / d increase in global oil production between 2006 and 2014, almost a fifth came from the Canadian tar sands, and the rest from the US «shale oil revolution» driven by fracking.

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.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

February 6 — 12 Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film (16 mm film negative sanded with surfboard shaping tools, sex wax melted on, squirted, dripped, splashed, sprayed and rubbed with donuts, zinc oxide, cuervo, sunscreen, hydrogen peroxide, tecate, sand, tar, scraped with a shark's tooth, edits made by the surf and a seal while film floated in waves - surfing performed by Andy Perry, Makela Moore, Alanna Moore, Zach Moore, Johnny McCann — shot by Peter West — film negative sanded by Mariah Csepanyi, Andy Perry and Jwest) 2011, 8 minutes 15 seconds 16 mm film negative transferred to high - definition video, no sound Commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California and Thanks to Andy Perry

Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film (16 mm film negative sanded with surfboard shaping tools, sex wax melted on, squirted, dripped, splashed, sprayed and rubbed with donuts, zinc oxide, cuervo, sunscreen, hydrogen peroxide, tecate, sand, tar, scraped with a shark's tooth, edits made by the surf and a seal while film floated in waves - surfing performed by Andy Perry, Makela Moore, Alanna Moore, Zach Moore, Johnny McCann — shot by Peter West — film negative sanded by Mariah Csepanyi, Andy Perry and Jwest) 16 mm film negative transferred to high - definition, 8 minutes 15 seconds 2011 Image courtesy of the artist.

Indeed, the study found that AN ELECTRIC CAR IS LIKELY WORSE THAN A CAR FUELED EXCLUSIVELY BY GASOLINE DERIVED FROM CANADIAN TAR - SANDS!»

Hence, ClimateAudit is really just an assault on science itself by a slick PR person working for Canada's oil, gas and tar sands industry.

Dubbed by some as the «most destructive project on Earth» - scarring it visibly from space - there's no doubt that the tar sands extraction industry has a huge environmental footprint, which even President Obama could not help but acknowledge during his visit to Ottawa last week, to the chagrin of some Canadian officials.

Tar Sands Environmental Destruction Not Worth It At the risk of sounding flippant, sounds like too little too late: I'll stand by the WWF's assessment that the economic and environmental costs of continuing to develop tar sands and oil shales — in energy speak «unconventional fuels» — are simply unthinkabTar Sands Environmental Destruction Not Worth It At the risk of sounding flippant, sounds like too little too late: I'll stand by the WWF's assessment that the economic and environmental costs of continuing to develop tar sands and oil shales — in energy speak «unconventional fuels» — are simply unthinkabtar sands and oil shales — in energy speak «unconventional fuels» — are simply unthinkable.

Recommended, if not entirely on topic — Tom Knudsen's Grabbing for oil in Sacto Bee today, on the environmental damage being wrought by exploiting Canada's tar sands.

But on the Keystone XL pipeline — which, if not blocked by President Obama, would carry the crudest form of oil from Canadian tar sand deposits to Gulf Coast fuel refineries — it seems there's little room for varied stances, at least according to some protesters.

12 % of US Daily Crude Imports Done by Enbridge Enbridge Energy is intimately connected with expanding production of oil from the Alberta tar sands and delivering it to the United States — their 2009 annual report states that they transport 71 % of western Canadian crude exports, satisfying 12 % of US daily crude oil imports.