Sentences with phrase «flood of tar sands»
If Europe fails to stand by its laws, it will allow a flood of tar sands to wreck its carbon footprint.»
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They say the DoS study failed to account for the effect of a flood of tar sands oil hitting the market through Keystone XL.
Erickson and Lazarus say the DoS failed to account for the effect of a flood of tar sands oil hitting the market through Keystone XL.
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Meanwhile, the thirst for oil drives the mining of tar sands in Alberta and the flooding of old wells with steam or CO2 in California and Texas.
Like the 2013 historic floods in Calgary that forced the head offices of the oil companies mining the Alberta tar sands to go dark and send their employees home, while a train carrying flammable petroleum products teetered on the edge of a disintegrating rail bridge.
Tar sands producers lost $ 30.9 billion from 2010 through 2013 due to transportation bottlenecks and the flood of crude coming from shale - oil fields.
The pipeline spill that flooded Mayflower, Ark., with up to 290,000 gallons of tar - sands oil in March was an accident that had been waiting to happen — for more than 60 years.
In solvent assisted production you see, rather than flooding the underground formation with steam to reduce the viscosity of the tar sands bitumen, you flood the formation with a combination of water and polymer solvents to reduce the bitumen's viscosity.
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.