Sentences with phrase «dirty tar sands»

The environmentalist posted a tweet Thursday saying the pipeline carrying «dirty tar sands oil» would be a step backward in efforts to solve the climate crisis.

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.

From Aug 20th to Sept. 3rd, thousands are pledging to risk arrest in daily acts of civil disobedience to convince President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring dirty tar sands oil to the U.S.. On September 26th, we will stand up to Prime Minister Harper to pressure him to stem the tar sands industry at its source.

In the kiddie pool was a dirty tar sands villain and a young woman, dressed as Secretary Clinton, had to choose whether to battle the villain and save the earth.

For example, Froman apparently has already been successful in challenging an EU fuel quality directive that would limit shipments to Europe of dirty tar sands oil, including that which would flow through pipelines like the proposed Keystone XL system for export from U.S. ports.

On March 29, Exxon's underground Pegasus Pipeline ruptured, spilling as much as 294,000 gallons of dirty tar sands crude...

In other words, the EU, China and Latin America get the oil, the foreign - owned oil companies get the profits and North Americans are left cleaning up oil spills and shouldering the pollution burden from extracting and refining the dirty tar sands.

It looks like Exxon's response to the catastrophic rupture of its Pegasus Pipeline, which leaked as much as 294,000 gallons of dirty tar sands crude into the streets, gardens, canals, storm sewers, creeks and wetlands of Mayflower, Arkansas, is turning into another Keystone Cops rerun.

On Date, Exxon's underground Pegasus Pipeline ruptured, spilling as much as 294,000 gallons of dirty tar sands crude in and around Mayflower.

Shipping dirty tar sands to Bay Area refineries would be a dangerous leap in the wrong direction.»

«This shipment could open the door to more imports of dirty tar sands.

350.org's Bill McKibben spoke during the rally, along with several Sierra Club representatives - all urging clean energy instead of more dirty tar sands oil.

Using the courts, political pressure, and grassroots power, we're fighting to keep dirty tar sands oil in the ground.

We empower local communities to protect themselves from reckless fracking operations, and we partner with leading scientists, financial analysts, and First Nations to stop the expansion of dirty tar sands oil development.

We have to stop fueling our fossil fuel addiction and say no to dirty tar sands.

Not exact matches

A lot of dirty oil is going to come out of the tar sands, be refined in China and create enough Co2 to push the planet into climate disaster.

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.

Tripling Alberta's dirty - energy tar - sands development.

Kinder Morgan can keep their pipeline, but Messrs. Weaver and Horgan have to get a law passed, that bans the importation of the dirty, tar sands into beautiful British Columbia.

«We should be focused on transitioning to renewable energy instead of piping the dirtiest of fossil fuels from tar sands in Canada across the U.S. to the Gulf of Mexico so that it can be shipped to our competitors in China,» Gillibrand said.

The Keystone XL pipeline would have transported the dirtiest and most expensive type of petroleum from tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to US refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.

But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.

Since dirtier source of oil (Canadian tar sands) are now being promoted, the accelerating trend is expected to continue.

A diverse group of activists are gathered there to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would inextricably hook the U.S. up to the dirtiest fuel source on the planet: Canada's tar sands.

Moreover, we should avoid now economically (but not ecologically) feasible widespread use of CO2 dirty technologies: coal - to - liquid, gas - to - liquid, oil shales or tar sands... nice said, worse done...

[3] A recent report by the U.S. - based Natural Resources Defense Council shows that if Europe does not act, its imports of tar sands, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels, would likely skyrocket from about 4,000 barrels per day in 2012 to over 700,000 bpd in 2020.

People are no longer ignorantly burning dirty fuels, and are questioning the wisdom of future dirty sources like tar sands while looking seriously at alternatives.

Tar sands, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels in commercial production, would undermine European climate policies on transport fuels.

Prior to that, Gatti directed the Get Off Oil program for Environment America, where he helped lead that organization's efforts to reduce oil consumption and oppose dirty fuels, including leading efforts to increase vehicle fuel efficiency and stop tar sands oil extraction, and helping to launch the Charge Ahead California campaign to increase access to clean cars.

«The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies,» said Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth U.S. «Rather than promoting dirty fossil fuels like tar sands and fracked natural gas, Obama and Barroso should be doing everything they can to keep these fuels in the ground and help avert climate catastrophe.»

«Tar sands oil simply is the dirtiest oil on the planet.

Alberta's tar sands industry took a couple of major hits over the last two weeks, in large part because of the great job clean energy advocates have done raising the profile of the problems and risks associated with the dirty energy project.

Like the airline bringing in a truck with a more powerful engine to tow that plane, the global economy is upping the ante from conventional sources of fossil fuels to even dirtier and more dangerous versions — bitumen from the Alberta tar sands, oil from deepwater drilling, gas from hydraulic fracturing (fracking), coal from detonated mountains, and so on.

Prior to the echochamber that ensued after the publication of Levant's book, tar sands oil was often characterized as «dirty» and «controversial» - much to the ire of the government.

This is a critical element of the draft environmental review because while State determined that tar sands is dirtier than conventional oil, it concludes that Keystone XL would have little impact on the expansion of tar sands and therefore policymakers and the public needn't consider the impacts of that expansion.

As the refining of bitumen from tar sands mines creates particularly dirty fuel, Valero and the other oil companies crawling around northern Alberta aren't happy to see California's Global Warming Solutions Act survive Proposition 23.

With tar sands project, Canada looks like a scientifically illiterate high poverty desperate country trying to go after the dirtiest forms of energy when it does not have to.

Best to leave as much as possible in the ground, especially coal, and not to exploit other dirty sources like oil / tar sands, nor go after methane from coastal clathrates.

, Friedman wrote that he hopes President Obama turns down TransCanada's proposal to build the Keystone XL pipeline across the Midwest so the «dirtiest crude» from Alberta's tar sands can be exported to overseas markets.

In the latest attempt to greenwash the tar sands, Canada's Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver has been roaming the United States trying to convince American politicians and thought leaders that Alberta's dirty crude is a clean, responsible, sustainable — even «green» — source of energy, and that Canada's environmental record and climate change policy are as good as it gets.

It's time to take a stand against the Keystone XL pipeline, a dangerous and destructive project that would pump over one million barrels of dirty «tar sands» oil from Canada to the USA every day.

Europe may be far across the sea, but it's not so far that Canada's relentless tar sands promoters are safe from those who oppose the dirty stuff.

With the government not approving TransCanada's pipeline project due to left - wing environmentalist groups, the hope was that «dirty» oil would not be imported from the tar sands in Canada to the US.

Taking tar sands oil amounts to borrowing a dirty needle from a neighbor addict.

Nor is oil produced from the Canadian tar sands as dirty from a climate perspective as many believe (some of the oil produced in California, without attention from environmentalists, is worse).»

Tar sands crude is one of the world's dirtiest, most expensive - to - produce, and difficult - to - extract oils — and many analysts argue that those reserves will be among those left in the ground.

Tar sands is the dirtiest fossil fuel on Earth.

Companies with fleets of cars and trucks have a critical role to play ensuring that as America raises efficiency and embraces renewable fuels, we also turn away from the dirtiest, most carbon - intensive sources of oil — Canadian tar sands.

Consequently, the policy encourages the use of better biofuels, biogas, and electricity, while disincentivizing dirtier sources, such as tar sands.

Tar sands oil is one of the dirtiest fuels on the planet.