Sentences with phrase «expand tar sands»

It is fundamentally impossible to both expand tar sands production with new export pipelines and meet our commitment for global warming not to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Accomplishing that will do three things: It will mean industry can charge higher prices for these resources; it will give the industry first - time access to an international export port; and it will send a market signal upstream that the game is on for expanding tar sands exploitation.

«Although the [research] project appears to seek a sustainable approach,» Schwabe said, «this is done only to make a deeply problematic, highly environmentally damaging business a little less problematic in order to justify strengthening and expanding the tar sands industry.»

Many industry analysts and executives have said that without Keystone XL, limited pipeline capacity would impede expanded tar sands production.

The Sierra Club and its allies are not alone in calling for a broader look at expanded tar sands infrastructure.

The groups are calling on the banks to cut business ties with Enbridge Inc. until it stops expanding tar sands operations, one of the most destructive fossil fuels on the planet.

A new report from Canada's environment ministry shows that emissions from expanding tar sands production and use will double by 2020 and will overwhelm emission cuts in energy production elsewhere.

Two, transportation is NOT the limiting (or even secondary limiting) factor is expanding tar sands production.

You know, like, how can we really meet our emissions reduction target (even Harper's old one), while expanding the tar sands?

Not exact matches

And International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol recently suggested that Canada should meet the challenge by expanding production in the Alberta tar sands and opening up the B.C. coast to oil and gas exploration.

«It's increasingly clear that without Keystone XL, the tar sands will not be able to expand at such a reckless pace.»

Yet governments and industry are rushing into expanded use of fossil fuels, including unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, shale gas extracted by hydrofracking, and methane hydrates.

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.

Kinder Morgan spent six years navigating the Canadian bureaucracy to win approval to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline to move crude from the tar sands of Alberta to ports on the Pacific Coast of British Columbia.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

12 % of US Daily Crude Imports Done by Enbridge Enbridge Energy is intimately connected with expanding production of oil from the Alberta tar sands and delivering it to the United States — their 2009 annual report states that they transport 71 % of western Canadian crude exports, satisfying 12 % of US daily crude oil imports.

Yet when such people are elected to the executive branch and must make real world decisions, they end up approving expanded off - shore drilling and allowing continued mountaintop removal, long - wall coal mining, hydro - fracking, etc. — maybe even a tar sands pipeline.

Such options include the inevitable expansion of Canada's own tar / oil sands (Keith Kloor has nicely knitted several views of this option), ever more coal production and the global push to tap greatly expanded reserves of natural gas.

Given the current uproar over Canada's tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline as well as past pitched battles over expanded oil and gas production, I have a hard time imagining Congressional Democrats or their environmentalist supporters getting behind the idea of opening ANWR to oil and gas drilling.

To what extent conservation measures, investments in alternative energy production, and efforts to expand petroleum production from tar sands and shale would mitigate such a period of adjustment is difficult to predict.

It expanded extraction using hydrofracturing in tar sands to increase activity in offshore oil drilling all over the world, thereby maximizing its rate of fossil fuel extraction and processing.

Fracking has expanded to the majority of the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara nations, (Ft. Berthold) and a new pipeline for the Bakken fracked oil is proposed to go from North Dakota into Minnesota, adjacent to the Enbridge pipeline which is seeking expansion from 440,000 barrels to 800,000 barrels per day of dilbit, or tar sands oil.

Derived from the 2010 Enbridge tar - sands spill on the Kalamazoo River, this map expands the Keystone pipeline corridor to encompass a possible voluntary evacuation zone should a similar spill occur.

12 March, 2018 — Canadians hoping Alberta's oil exports from its tar and oil sands will expand may be disappointed.

Norway, which along with the other Scandinavian countries has been among the most ambitious and successful of all nations in reducing its emissions, nevertheless approves expanded oil drilling in the Arctic and development of tar sands as a majority owner of Statoil [258]--[259].

Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to modify leasing guidelines for: (1) lands within special tar sand areas; (2) oil shale deposits and expanded lease acreage; and (3) lease exclusion from any chargeability limitation associated with oil and gas leases.

A new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and Oil Change International quantifies for the first time the financial and carbon impact of public opposition to pipelines and other expanded investment in tar sands production.

With depressed oil prices, the opportunity for oil companies to expand their reserves through extreme and expensive drilling, like tar sands and deepwater drilling, have fallen off the business plan drafting table.

This rapid increase in GHGs is because there is not one single federal regulation to limit the amount of GHGs from tar sands development, permitting tar sands companies to continue to expand production — and greenhouse gas emissions — in perpetuity.

They also show that, even if we just hope to keep the increase below four degrees, then we canâ $ ™ t allow any expansion of the tar sands, and certainly no new pipelines such as Keystone and Northern Gateway to support any expanded use of fossil fuels.

Canadians hoping Alberta's oil exports from its tar and oil sands will expand may be disappointed.

It may be that we'll see some big new fields brought on line or that new sources like tar sands will expand rapidly.

A few years back I wrote about plans for the Murphy Oil Refinery in northeastern Wisconsin to expand operations 700 %, to take advantage of tar sands oil piped in from Canada.

WWF summarizes Canada's poor performance by saying that the nation has very high emissions per capita compared to other industrial nations, despite the aforementioned large use of hydropower; its per capita emissions are still increasing; its expanding development of the carbon - intensive tar sands and has no significant policy to reduce overall emissions.

In addition to tea party congressional Republicans, opposition to continuing the wind credit comes from the American Energy Alliance, a Washington, D.C. - based industry group linked to petrochemical interests that promote expanded drilling for fossil fuels, including in the protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and approval of the proposed XL pipeline to bring Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in Texas and the Gulf Coast.

They'll still be working hard on tar sands but expanding their work to take on issues like fracking, and systematic change like ending fossil fuel subsidies and attacking the idea that corporations are people.

Meanwhile, Kinder Morgan wants to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline system, nearly tripling its capacity so it can carry up to 600,000 more barrels of tar - sands oil a day from Alberta to B.C..

In 2013 I became involved with a newly formed group of Burnaby residents protesting a plan by Kinder Morgan, a Texas based oil company, to dramatically expand the export of diluted bitumen from the Alberta tar sands to oversees markets through a small marine terminal in Burrard Inlet, just miles from the City of Vancouver.

If approved, Kinder Morgan's proposal would see the transport of tar sands oil expanded from its present level of approximately 300,000 barrels per day to 890,000 barrels per day.