Sentences with phrase «developing oil shale»

I can see the energy independence pull on tapping into these fuel sources, but frankly any government which advocates developing oil shale or tar sands seriously loses its credibility in terms of its commitment to tackling climate change and on the environment more broadly.

Oil Shale Development a Climate Change + Water Disaster In case you hadn't heard, developing oil shale is just as bad (if not worse in some ways) from an environmental perspective as tar sands.

Rather than wholeheartedly support the kind of energy policy, civic infrastructure and lifestyle changes that will allow the United States to prosper in a post-carbon, green economy — and build a clean energy independence — the focus is on populist false promises that developing oil shale or lifting bans on offshore oil drilling will reduce short term energy costs.

Reuters also reports that, separately, a DoI spokesperson indicated that plans to further develop oil shale deposits in the several Rocky Mountain states are also continuing.

Not exact matches

If the U.S. develops its oilsands and its oil shale resources in the western states, it will be great news for Canada's energy industry for several reasons, writes Erica Alini.

Britain is estimated to have substantial amounts of shale gas trapped in underground rocks and the national government has supported developing these reserves to counter declining North Sea oil and gas output.

Perhaps they have been reading the stories of bottlenecks developing in US shale oil production and have realized that they could have $ 100 oil again without quickly creating a glut of US shale oil.

«For many years we heard US, our major oil buyer, developing shale oil, we did nothing.

A rush to invest and drill Top producers Chesapeake Energy and Exxon Mobil Corp., along with hundreds of big and small oil and gas producers, are pouring billions of dollars into developing North American shale formations.

In a bid to develop expertise and cut the expense Chinese state - owned oil companies, such as Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corp., have begun to invest in U.S. shale gas developmeoil companies, such as Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corp., have begun to invest in U.S. shale gas developmeOil Corp., have begun to invest in U.S. shale gas development.

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.

In the United States, some equally not - so - eco-friendly technologies have been developed to extract oil from shale in Colorado.

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 unthinkable.

In order to «fully develop» the Mountain West's oil shale resources, a 16,000 square mile area would have to be stripped of all vegetation, flattened and drilled on a density that would make even Texans blush.

Let's reword all this and say that we want to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste and real pollution wherever we can, we want to move away from ever scarcer and costlier fossil fuels, particularly those that have to be imported from a price - fixing cartel of nations that are generally hostile to us and we want to develop new domestic sources of energy, be that shale oil and gas, new biofuels (not silly corn - to - ethanol schemes) and other renewable energy sources, etc..

They compared estimated emissions for shale gas, conventional gas, coal (surface - mined and deep - mined) and diesel oil, taking into account direct emissions of CO2 during combustion, indirect emissions of CO2 necessary to develop and use the energy source and methane emissions, which were converted to equivalent value of CO2 for global warming potential.

Given our nation's need to control energy costs and improve energy security, many policymakers are calling for a comprehensive national energy policy that promotes and develops all of America's own energy resources — conventional and shale natural gas, oil, wind, nuclear, solar, etc. — to diversify energy supply.

Hydraulic fracturing is modern technology, safely and responsibly developing vast reserves of oil and natural gas from shale and other tight - rock formations.

Developing America's vast domestic oil, natural gas, coal and shale gas deposits will generate millions of jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars in critically needed royalty and tax revenue.

Hydraulic fracturing is a modern technology, safely and responsibly developing vast reserves of oil and natural gas from shale and other tight - rock formations.

PA, your scenario for a 600 ppm cap involves leaving significant amounts of known coal resources in the ground, not developing Arctic oil or exploring for any other new oil fields, including shale oil, and not developing methyl clathrates as a methane source.

«The increased exploration and development spend we're seeing in this year's study speaks to the incredible opportunity unfolding in tight oil from shale formations and the high cost of developing these unconventional resources.»

Applying a method developed in a similar geological formation, the Barnett shale in Texas, scores of energy companies proved that by combining and supercharging some old oil industry technologies, they could drive fissures through that rock to yield sizable amounts of natural gas.

Significantly, the department concludes what a number of other states have found and are demonstrating — that advanced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling to develop natural gas and oil from shale and other tight - rock formations can be conducted safely and efficiently.

These include direct jobs in developing new oil and natural gas resources from shale.

§ 15927 («[I] t is the policy of the United States that... United States oil shale, tar sands, and other unconventional fuels are strategically important domestic resources that should be developed to reduce the growing dependence of the United States on politically and economically unstable sources of foreign oil imports -LSB-.]»)

Recently advised an oil and gas shale operator in the successful negotiation of the first post-reform comprehensive services contract with Pemex to develop unconventional resources in northern Mexico.