Sentences with phrase «footprint of the oil sands»
Growing concern about climate change and the election of Barack Obama mean that the enormous carbon footprint of the oil sands may eventually become a cost to producers.
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A new finding comes amid a debate about the carbon footprint of the oil sands generally.
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Reducing the carbon footprint of the Alberta oil sands, and securing Alberta's economic success in a lower carbon world are key objectives.
The biggest carbon footprint of any oil is a barrel of oil sands bitumen.
Concerns included the footprint of the pipeline and it generally causing an increase in oil production from the oil sands in Alberta.
Well, because tar sand - extracted oils have a 2X + greater carbon footprint than «conventional oil,» operating margins for producing oil in Alberta will be roughly 1/2 as good as those of the competing state oil companies, once Cap & Trade is fully implemented.
Critics of the TransCanada pipeline have warned of potential spills in America's heartland as well as the climate impacts of allowing more tar sands oil, which has a higher carbon footprint than conventional sources, into the US and other markets.
As tar sands oil has a much larger carbon footprint than conventional oil, climate change legislation targeted by Prop 23 would limit California's imports of high - carbon fuels — fuels that would likely include toxic tar sands oil from Alberta.
Two to three percent, as James Coan from the Baker Institute Energy Forum reminds us in a column for the trade publication FuelFix, is all the difference that Americans will see in their carbon footprint if they open up pipelines, like the pending Keystone XL, to the oil sands, instead of importing conflict oil from the oppressive and persecuting regimes of Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Nigeria.
The oil that would have flowed through the Keystone pipeline, extracted from a large sedimentary basin that includes the well - known oil sands of Alberta, has a higher carbon footprint than other, lighter crude.
The advocacy group Oil Change International referred to petcoke as «the coal hiding in the tar sands» in a 2013 report documenting the carbon footprint of petcoke production and combustion.
«The oil pulled from the tar sands gives a Toyota Prius the carbon footprint of a Hummer,» Gore said at the time, after blasting the Canadian government for its soft position on the exploitation of the tar sands.
Another critic argues that the studies fail to consider no - till cultivation of biofuel crops, which actually increase soil carbon storage, and that corn ethanol plants are converting to renewable energy, thus decreasing their emissions - meanwhile they are competing against fossil fuels like oil from tar sands that have an increased carbon footprint even compared to conventional gasoline.
Van der Veer went on to claim that the «well - to - wheels» carbon footprint of Canadian tar sand extraction — in which Shell is heavily invested, seeing 74 % profit growth in the second quarter of this year — was only 15 % higher than conventional sources of oil.