Sentences with phrase «for oil sands development»

Victoria lawyer Robert Janes, counsel for the bands, told an Ottawa press conference earlier this year the lake at Frog Lake would no longer be protected, nor would many of «the vast number of navigable waterways» in Mikisew traditional territory making them vulnerable to being dug up for oil sands development.

Executive director Ed Whittingham lambasted the government's «five - year track record of failing to meaningfully tackle greenhouse gas pollution and avoiding federal responsibility for oil sands development.»

Not exact matches

What will also be an issue, potentially for legal appeal, is what the Joint Review Panel didn't consider: the impacts of oil sands development.

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

Little wonder that the promise of benefits from oil sands development is cold comfort for Ontarians and Quebeckers as the once - dominant manufacturing sector struggles to reinvent and revitalize itself.

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.

So, while a boycott — whether of tourism or of oil sands products — might be, in and of itself, ineffectual in halting oil sands development, it may still contribute to a more challenging business case for future oil sands projects.

Contamination from upstream tar sands / oil sands development is causing higher levels of cancer and other serious disease for members of the Athabasca Chipewyan and...

The government and the oil and gas industry have spent lavishly to promote fossil fuel development, but a poll for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers found that only 51 % of us think tar sands / oil sands development is worth the environmental risk; 49 % think it isn't.

While the largest component of this extraction is exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the bureau is also responsible for «non-energy minerals» (primarily sand and gravel) excavated from the ocean floor.

«We have environmental impacts now, and these impacts are about to get a lot bigger,» notes oil sands policy analyst Marc Huot of the Pembina Institute, an environmental group working for responsible development.

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

She cited applications like providing power for metal mining or oil sands development where «temporary baseload, heavy - duty power» is needed, as ideal for the technology.

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.

For example, the Department of Energy was promoting development of synthetic fuels from coal, tar sands and oil shale.

The Canadian media are full of speculation that the Canadian government will push for special treatment and protections from global warming regulation of its fastest - growing source of greenhouse gas emissions — the tar sands oil development in Alberta, where much of Canada's oil is derived.

IHS CERA's new environmental assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline and pipeline - related oil sands development sends a pretty clear message to President Obama as he decides whether to approve the full project's construction: There's not a climate rationale for rejecting the pipeline — and along with it, tens of thousands of U.S. jobs, economic uplift and greater energy security.

On Thursday, June 16, API hosted bloggers for a conference call to discuss the economic benefits of oil sands development and the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Keystone XL Pipeline: A Potential Mirage for Oil - sands Investors shows «new Canadian oil - sands development is increasingly economically questionable without the additional export capacity that pipelines such as KXL would bring», says Mark Lewis, external research advisor to Carbon TrackOil - sands Investors shows «new Canadian oil - sands development is increasingly economically questionable without the additional export capacity that pipelines such as KXL would bring», says Mark Lewis, external research advisor to Carbon Trackoil - sands development is increasingly economically questionable without the additional export capacity that pipelines such as KXL would bring», says Mark Lewis, external research advisor to Carbon Tracker.

Heavy metal pollution is a growing concern for communities located near oil sands operations and downstream from development - causing health problems for people and wildlife.

It ignores the pipeline's significant risk for toxic spills, ignores its catastrophic impacts on our climate, and ignores the clear consensus among financial analysts and oil executives who agree Keystone XL will make the difference in tar sands development.»

Useful quantitative measures of the increasing ecological impacts are provided by the history of oil development in Alberta, Canada for production of both conventional oil and tar sands development.

After gutting most of Canada's federal environmental legislation to expedite tar sands development and pipeline proposals at the behest of the oil industry, now the federal government is making it more difficult, and in some cases impossible, for members of the public to participate in the National Energy Board's (NEB) review of Enbridge's proposal to reverse its Line 9 pipeline through southern Ontario and Quebec.

While the largest component of this extraction is exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the bureau is also responsible for «non-energy minerals» (primarily sand and gravel) excavated from the ocean floor.

The Nebraska hearing follows a similar affair held in Washington for the House energy committee, where Canadian climate economist Mark Jaccard testified that, despite the conclusion in the State Department's Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), «The denial of Keystone XL will help to slow development of the oil sands.

For Canada's part, hydrogen could play a critical role in the future development of oil sands in a climate - responsible manner.

As suggested in the article, the only way to stop the development of the oil sands (or any new oil development for that matter) is to address the supply side of the supply - demand curve, because as long as oil is at $ 90 bbl the producers will find a way to get their product to market.

Some commentators on the Keystone decision have noted that, at sub - $ 50 oil, the prospects for new oil sands development are slim, pipeline or not.

Drilling Down: Groundwater Risks Imposed by In Situ Oil Sands Development provides clear, achievable recommendations for improving groundwater management, assessment and monitoring in the oil sands regiOil Sands Development provides clear, achievable recommendations for improving groundwater management, assessment and monitoring in the oil sands regioil sands region.

Canada has great plans for controlling greenhouse gases, except of course where it might hurt oil sands development in Alberta.

«When you have the development of oil sand deposits, there are vast landscapes that go on for miles that are barren and a lot of big lakes of toxic water that have been used in the process of extracting the oil,» said Jack Woodward, the lawyer representing them.

One way tar sand supporters will continue to push for more tar sands development is to continue their efforts to try to re-brand the tar sands from dirty oil to «ethical oil».

I do not agree with the view that preventing new pipelines will do little to slow development of the oil sands or that the development of access to foreign markets for bitumen is inevitable.

Current alternatives to the Keystone XL for transporting tar sands oil are on a much smaller scale, in much earlier stages of development, and in many cases face such significant opposition that they are unlikely to move ahead in the next five to 10 years if at all.»

Regulatory processes and environmental assessments for pipelines, mines, oil sands facilities, and other resource development projects