Sentences with phrase «calling tar»

Of course, calling tar - sands pipelines no riskier than other oil pipelines isn't exactly a huge comfort.

Environmentalists have fought for years to stem Canadian oil sands production, which some call tar sands, in favor of cleaner energy.

Proponents call them oil sands while opponents call them tar sands.

Pataki's new super PAC, Tipping Point, is unleashing a robo - call tarring Maloney, a former top lawyer in the Spitzer administration, for his role in the Troopergate state travel records scandal that rocked Spitzer's brief tenure.

Trans Ionics, based in the Woodlands, Tex., is focusing on so - called tar sand, or bitumen, an especially heavy and sour oil of which the Western Hemisphere holds 65 percent of the world's reserves, primarily in Canada and Venezuela.

The oil also emulsifies, forming mousse — a frothy mix of hydrocarbons and water — or clumps into so - called tar balls.

«I grew up in a small town in Devon which has a tradition every 5th of November called Tar Barrels,» says Leon Foggitt, a London - based editorial and commercial photographer.

The boreal forests of Alberta, Canada are home to vast deposits of oil sands, also called tar sands.

Large deposits of crude oil called tar sands are located in Alberta, Canada.

Religious activists and organizations gathered August 29 outside the White House as part of a two - week protest called Tar Sands Action, which is aimed at pressuring President Obama to reject a proposed oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast.

The production of petroleum from Canada's oil sands, also called tar sands, is on the rise and will continue to rise.

Whether you call them tar sands or oil sands, this resource is actually bituminous sand, a mixture of sand, clay, water and an extremely viscous form of petroleum called bitumen.

In 1999, Canada surpassed Saudi Arabia as the United States» largest source of oil imports, and today a full half of the country's oil production comes from Alberta's so - called tar or oil sands: a form of petroleum found in a mixture of sand, clay, and bitumen that is either mined in pits or extracted by pumping steam into wells.

On its blog, the group, which calls itself Tar Sands Blockade, takes pains to point out that the protest was staged not by professional activists, but by ordinary citizens.

The third, continuous active learning (CAL), is a central part of a newer approach to predictive coding, which we call TAR 2.0.

Not exact matches

Grantham also has strong views on the oil market, which isn't surprising for a devoted environmentalist who participated in Keystone pipeline protests and has called for the death of the «tar sands.»

In the face of a nationwide business backlash, the Tar Heel State this year repealed its so - called bathroom bill, which restricted transgender people's use of public facilities.

A Globe and Mail columnist and self - described Ontario climate hawk is calling for a just transition for tar sands / oil sands workers, as a key...

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.

Oil prices at a five - year low should be a wake - up call for Canada to abandon an economic strategy based strictly on tar sands / oil sands...

But rather than tar it with the explosive word plagiarism, with that word's connotations of intent to reap rewards by presenting others» work as one's own, why not simply call it a mistake?

I've long had the sense that Msgr. Ellis's article was retrospectively misinterpreted as a relentless polemic against Catholic colleges and universities mired in the tar - pits of Neo-Scholasticism and intellectually anorexic as a result; on the contrary, it's possible to read Ellis as calling for Catholic institutions of higher learning to play to their putative strengths — the liberal arts, including most especially philosophy and theology — rather than aping the emerging American multiversity, of which the University of California at Berkeley was then considered the paradigm.

Everyone in North Carolina, Tar Heels fan or otherwise, will remember one of his calls from some point in their life.

North Carolina football coach Mack Brown, who has worked across campus from Dean Smith for 10 seasons, remarked last week on Smith's «very high energy on the boundary... bench... sidelines... whatever they call it,» then added that he had learned some useful strategies by watching Smith, who resigned as Tar Heels basketball coach last week after 36 seasons in Chapel Hill.

On the one side, a portion of the public, and much of the electorate, is so bitter over PEDs that they want to tar and feather the lot of ballplayers from the so - called «Steroid Era» (if you can define both the beginning and the end of said era, please feel free) before they even let them inside the city limits of Cooperstown.

The Pirates trailed at the half, but the Bluejays» cast of precise and patient perimeter players — call»em the Mutuals of Omaha — then came a cropper, turning the ball over so many times that Creighton coach Tony Barone, a former Chicago Cub batboy, must have been tempted to reach for the pine - tar rag.

Newborn babies poo's in those first few days will be a black tar like poop which is called meconium.

During the first day of life, your little newborn is going to make a blackish, tar - like mess called meconium.

A spokesman for North Carolina Gov. Gov. Pat McCrory called Cuomo's ban on nonessential publicly funded travel to the Tar Heel State «hypocrisy and demagoguery,» and questioned whether Cuomo would ask the SU basketball team to boycott the upcoming Final Four because it is hosted by Houston, where voters last year defeated a non-discrimination ordinance.

Hawkins Calls for Moratorium on Oil Shipment by Rail and No Tar Sands Oil in New York Until Moratorium, NY Residents Have a Right to Know Details of Bakken and other Oil Shipments (Syracuse, NY) At a vigil in Syracuse to observe the one year anniversary of the 47 residents killed in Lac Megantic, Canada by a derailment of a «bomb train,» Howie Hawkins said that New York State residents have a right to know about the details of similar shipments here in New York.

Plans call for running the 3,200 - kilometer - long pipeline from Canadian tar - sands fields to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries

He estimates that a 2 millimeter thick layer of these tar constituents, polymers called tholins, would absorb more than 99 % of the UV energy at the most - damaging wavelengths.

Oil, and ointment, and wax, and wine, And the lovely colours called aniline; You can make anything from a salve to a star, If you only know how to, from black Coal - tar.

This yielded five products: coal gas, coal tar, an aqueous phase called ammoniacal liquor, coke and retort carbon.

«Other options like rail or truck are not feasible for the transportation of large quantities,» said Elizabeth Shope, anti — tar sands advocate with environmental group the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a conference call with reporters, noting that such alternative transportation more than triples the cost of moving tar sands oil.

In 1822, he made the first permanent photo by using a sheet of polished tin coated with a petroleum derivative called bitumen of Judea (a type of tar).

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I hate when Carter's honorarium «Dotar Sojat» is translated as Jeddak Tars Tarkas's (Willem Dafoe) «right arm» (another term for «bitch» after spending the first part of the film being called a virgin queen) instead of «the surnames of the two warrior chieftains whose metal I had taken.»

Grantham also has strong views on the oil market, which isn't surprising for a devoted environmentalist who participated in Keystone pipeline protests and has called for the death of the «tar sands.»

With new and exciting boulders such as the giant cube aptly called «the block of ages», a prehistoric wheel and even a boulder made of tar which makes it impossible for your enemy to build defenses on smeared areas, developers ACE Team improved on every aspect of the originals gameplay.

Kodiak Frontier serves as the perpetual wintery introduction; Seaside Island is the bright and cheerful coastal jungle Sonic and friends call home; Paleo Tarpits brings together unearthed dinosaur bones and oozing tar; Cutthroat Cove stands out as an abandoned pirate hideout; and Gothic Gardens — my personal favorite of the bunch — beholds a dark and dreary graveyard setting before transitioning towards a breaking dawn over expansive castle ruins.

This «drab, dark brown» also called «opaque couché,» has been described as «death,» «dirty,» and «tar,» making it ideal for its job as cigarette killer.

In December 2000, Wheeler was named Tar Heel of the Year by the Raleigh News and Observer, which called him «the godfather of the Triangle's cultural boom» and cited his skill at melding «arts, politics and commerce into a powerful new cultural force.»

In Canada, tapping the tar sands has been called the most environmentally destructive project on the planet.

ForestEthics has launched a new tool called TarSandsSOS that lets citizens track supertankers hauling tar sands oil along the Pacific coast in real time.

Green leaders issue a global, social media - based rallying call to push back against an effort to pass the tar sands oil pipeline through the Senate tomorrow.

I was quite intrigued by his claim that the TAR calls GCM's unverifiable.

In effort to bring attention to the threat posed by supertanker carrying tar sands oil from Vancouver, ForestEthics has launched a new tool called TarSandsSOS that lets citizens track supertankers hauling tar sands oil along the Pacific coast in real time.

The company took to Twitter this afternoon to respond to what it called «allegations» that Exxon isn't liable for the full costs of cleaning up their tar sands crude spill in Mayflower, Arkansas.

Indeed, be careful of the time sink some people call the «tar baby» syndrome (from an old tale for children).