Sentences with phrase «especially oil sands»

The company is definitely in the middle of turmoil around oil and especially oil sands.

The company is definitely in the middle of turmoil around oil and especially oil sands.

«Canada, especially the oil sands, and Brazilian offshore projects.

Not exact matches

In large part, I agree... especially with your point about the thinness of my analogy between Alberta (as home of the oil sands) and Arkansas (as home of Walmart).

With Suncor is positioned nicely from a reserve standpoint, with operations in northern Alberta (which is second only to Saudi Arabia in production among oil sands regions), its valuation should rise to be more in line with peers, especially as supermajors continue to battle it out for conventional reserves.

The concern here is that this incidental capacity could add significant weight to frack - sand pricing later this year, especially if drillers start pulling back spending on new wells due to lower oil prices.

On the other hand, Canadian oil production, especially from the oil sands of Alberta, but also from offshore fields in the Atlantic, is bound to increase with the passage of time.

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.

Keystone XL and pipeline capacity out of the oil sands and oil shale projects should be monitored, especially for holders of UNP and the some of the railcar manufacturers.

The EPA now says there is no more danger of further oil spilling from the ruptured pipeline under the Yellowstone River, but several big questions remain — especially considering that ExxonMobil now says that tar sands oil routinely was carried by the

The EPA now says there is no more danger of further oil spilling from the ruptured pipeline under the Yellowstone River, but several big questions remain — especially considering that ExxonMobil now says that tar sands oil routinely was carried by the Silvertip pipeline.

Protesters fear environmental damage, especially from possible oil spills; are frustrated with oil companies» grip on US politics; and condemn the impacts of tar sands exploitation on the boreal forest and First Nations in Canada.

«As oil production from tar sands is viewed very negatively in Germany, it is difficult to explain why such a research project for tar sands is funded with public monies — especially considering that the project is being undertaken in a country that has withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol.

In reality, oil sands petroleum is among the most ethical and ecological on Earth, especially when compared to real - world alternatives like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Sudan, Russia, Ecuador and Venezuela, whose human rights violations, terrorism sponsorship and reckless environmental records are legendary.

The projected expansion of the oil sands industry will require too much water to sustain the Athabasca River system, especially with the added impact of predicted climate warming, according to a new report published by the University of... Read more →

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.

But tar sands are between 12 and 20 percent more carbon intensive than even regular oil, especially when burning of the, worse than coal, coke bi-product is taken into account.

At the same time, the budget bill came freighted with legislation intended to «streamline» environmental review processes in the hope of fast - tracking oil pipelines and other large energy infrastructure projects, and it has handed the Canada Revenue Agency $ 7 million to intensify its scrutiny of environmental charities — especially the ones labelled «foreign radicals» by Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver in a fiery Globe and Mail op - ed calling for approval of Enbridge's $ 5 - billion Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta's oil sands to the coast of northern B.C.

But we should especially avoid using more tar sands oil that would be transported through projects like the Keystone XL pipeline.

The pipeline will not be moving «average» oil, of course, but rather tar sands oil, which is especially dirty and carbon intensive.

I'm still not entirely comfortable with nuclear but I admit ignorance there and thus don't really advocate directly against it (PS somewhat the same position with GM foods / crops); what I know enough to be afraid of and advocate against is a BAU future of coal, oil, and gas, especially one without CCS or other sequestration, with mountaintop removal mining, with tar sands, with fracking (you may already be aware of the radioactivity associated with that), Hg, escalating prices, etc (and you would be against this too, I'm sure).

So, as many speaker said during the conference: Peak Oil will not save us from Global Warming, especially not if CTL and tar sands will be used as large - scale substitutes.

It makes perfect free - market sense that Chinese investors would want to invest a lot of money into Canadian tar sands oil extraction ventures - especially if they had some inkling that the downstream products could come their way by freighter.Pipe dream indeed.