Sentences with phrase «cost of tar sand»

«The cost of actually doing deep - sea drilling, the cost of doing fracking in North Dakota, the cost of tar sands, the cost of Arctic drilling is way, way, way higher than anyone admits,» Shah said.

«The Mayflower tar sands spill is another warning of the potential costs of the tar sands industry's reckless expansion plans... [and] offers us a small sample of the risk that tar sands pipelines pose to American communities.»

«The Mayflower tar sands spill is another warning of the potential costs of the tar sands industry's reckless expansion plans,» wrote NRDC's Anthony Swift in a blog post.

By DirtyOilSands.org Wednesday, April 03, 2013 QUOTE OF THE WEEK «The Mayflower tar sands spill is another warning of the potential costs of the tar sands industry's reckless expansion plans... [and] offers us a small sample of the risk that tar sands pipelines pose to American communities.»

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

Getting equipment and people to the tar sands region costs loads of money.

Canada currently produces about four million barrels of oil a day but 61 percent of that volume comes from high cost and carbon intensive mining in the tar sands.

«The Athabasca tar sands in Canada are being mined and converted to petroleum at a cost of about $ 20 a barrel,» he says.

«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.

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.

Broadly stated: if you reject a lease and take a large portion of a commodity (here coal, but it could have been natural gas, tar sands, etc.) off the market, you decrease the supply, increase the cost, and, over the long term, decrease the use of that commodity.

In a smart recap of the controversy over tar sands oil, Maddow uses the Mayflower oil spill as a lead - in to a discussion on the tar sands oil spill on the Kalamazoo River oil spill, which has become the most expensive oil spill in US history with cleanup costs surpassing $ 765 million dollars.

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.

Rubin tells us the heavy oil from the Tar Sands (or «oil sands» as the industry tries to say) costs more to refine, and gets less on the market — perhaps forty something a barrel, versus the 50 or 60 dollars a barrel we hear quoted as «the price of oil».

State made several flawed assumptions in its environmental review, including 1) an unrealistically low cost for transporting tar sands by rail from Alberta to Texas, 2) an inaccurate estimate of tar sands production costs and 3) an unrealistic assumption that tar sands production costs will not increase with rising labor, material and energy prices.

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.

Industry's correspondence with the Canadian government implicitly recognizes that by providing a low cost transportation solution, Keystone XL would reduce costs and enable significant additional expansion of tar sands production.

An Oil Bonanza, With a Cost Alberta's oil sands, also known as tar sands, are one of the world's largest petroleum reservoirs.

European drivers will be forced to fill up their tanks with tar sands that will raise emissions — not lower them — and push up the costs of decarbonisation by billions of euros,» added Laura Buffet of Transport & Environment.

Indeed, the market conditions and policies necessary to make the tar sands a cost - effective source of energy will almost certainly result in dangerous levels of global warming that will exceed two degrees Celsius, the internationally agreed upon limit that will prevent climate change from destroying the planet.

Exxon, like all companies shipping toxic tar sands, doesn't have to pay into the fund that will cover most of the clean up costs for the pipeline's inevitable spills.»

But the fact that the tar sands of Alberta are no longer considered too expensive to use (despite the huge expense in real dollars, as well as the environmental cost) shows that such a limit is being approached (and therefore that it exists).

A Bloomberg report reveals that the 1,700 mile tar sands oil pipeline would likely have the effect of raising the cost of gasoline by $ 0.20 a gallon.

TreeHugger has filled a great many virtual pages on the topic of Alberta tar sands, detailing time and time again the high environmental costs of extracting this so - called unconventional source of oil, which the Albertan government has bet

Allowing dirty tar sands to flood into Europe is going to raise emissions - not lower them - and raise the costs of decarbonisation by billions of euros.

These extra costs can be avoided by a robust implementation of the FQD, which would keep tar sands out of Europe.