Sentences with phrase «for tar sands»

It was just the latest in a string of major setbacks for tar sands oil, which has become nearly as bad for corporate profits as it is for the environment.

When this pristine forest is strip - mined for tar sands development, much of its stored carbon is lost.

Their concern is with the increasing market for tar sands, so called dirty fuel.

And that's just for the tar sands close enough to the surface — no more than 80 meters deep — to be mined.

That cost differential is make - or - break for a tar sands business.

Those deadlines would have been practical for a typical spill — but not for a tar sands oil spill.

The Inspector General of the U.S. State Department has opened an investigation into the handling of the permitting process for the tar sands pipeline.

«If you go with the numbers that are being published, if you account for the tar sands in Northern Alberta, we're supposed to have the second largest oil reserves in the world, second only to Saudi Arabia,» says Ma.

We know strangling all export routes for tar sands oil is unrealistic.

After years of effort to try to slow demand for tar sands oil in the U.S., campaigners are finally seeing their arguments seriously taken up at the highest levels of the federal government.

The latest EROI values for tar sands were calculated by David Hughes, a fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, a non-profit devoted to issues such as climate change and energy scarcity, based in Santa Rosa, Calif..

These export terminals for LNG in Canada is also needed to increase the price of natural gas in Canada and thereby make the renewable energy option for tar sands more viable.

In addition, a major expansion of Imperial Oil's Kearl oil sands project recently came online in the midst of the down cycle, further depressing prices for tar sands oil.

«What the long term looks like [for tar sands] really depends on whether we move to address climate change or whether we adopt failure,» said Anthony Swift, director of the Canada project at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

«What the long term looks like [for tar sands] really depends on whether we move to address climate change or whether we adopt failure,» said

Pushing for tar sands development means committing to a massive increase in climate - disrupting pollution.

A sixty percent lower figure for EROI of nuclear power than the 93:1 I quoted would still give a pretty acceptable EROI for tar sands, whereas very low estimates of the order of 7:1 which some use based apparently on Storm - Smith would be a lot more doubtful.

There is no requirement for tar sands companies to return the boreal forest to its natural state, only «an equivalent land capability» capable of supporting one or more uses that «existed prior to any activity being conducted on the land,» even though «the individual land uses will not necessarily be identical.»

A Globe and Mail columnist and self - described Ontario climate hawk is calling for a just transition for tar sands / oil sands workers, as a key...

«In your discussions with the Canadian government, we encourage you to raise concerns over the environmental and social problems associated with tar sands production and make no exemption for the tar sands in any binational agreement addressing climate change» says the open letter.

Approval of a crude heating facility at the Port of Albany could allow Global to turn Albany, and possibly the Hudson River, into a major transportation route for tar sands crude from western Canada.

When more energy is spent getting at the oil than the energy you extract, you stop drilling, so I don't see much future for tar sands, deep sea wells, etc. once the conventional sources get too expensive.

ExxonMobil is getting defensive about its response plans for the tar sands pipeline spill in Arkansas.

Western Canadian Select, the benchmark for tar sands oil, trades at a discount to U.S. crude because it is lower - grade oil that's bought and sold in Hardisty, Alberta, far from U.S. refinery customers.

Others are processing plants for tar sands or biofuel.

What about alternates for tar sands if the Keystone XL pipeline is not built?

It's no wonder the Harper government pulled out of Kyoto, gutted Canada's environmental laws, and pimps for the tar sands industry as if it were the only way to build a responsible and sustainable economy in Canada.

Moreover, a new environmental review is needed to account for the dramatic changes in the outlook for the tar sands industry, as lower oil prices and a global movement to address climate change has led Exxon to write down billions of barrels of tar sands reserves and companies like Statoil and Total to pull out of the tar sands entirely.

The Canadian oil industry's crude quality clearinghouse Crudemoniter.ca doesn't list Wabasca Heavy as a heavy conventional crude but as a diluted bitumen — the category for tar sands.

Quebec Adopts Cap - and - Trade Program Canada as a whole may be getting rightly pilloried for its governmental enthusiasm for tar sands and obstructing the latest international climate talks, but here's a counter point: Montreal Gazette reports that Quebec has just adopted a cap - and - trade system.

Exxon may indeed end up paying for all of the oil spill cleanup in Mayflower, but they are not paying the 8 - cents - per - barrel fee for the tar sands oil, as they would if they were transporting conventional oil.

«So far the response from Stephen Harper and the fossil fuel industry to the growing momentum to actions like this (United Church divestment) has been to dig in even further on their support for tar sands and other fossil fuels,» said Fenton.

Here it is: New analysis from WWF shows that even with carbon capture and storage technology, the emissions for tar sands - based oil are still well in excess

As the U.S. and Canadian governments continue to push for tar sands expansion and new pipelines to transport tar sands crude across the countries, we must remember these spills.

Full text after the jump.TreeHugger: You wrote recently about a proposed pipeline for tar sand extracts, saying: «the phase out of emissions from coal is, itself, an enormous challenge.

«No one can predict the future, but if the region's past 900 years is any indication, and you factor in climate change, you're going to have a warmer situation that could mean the river will no longer be a sustainable water source for the tar sands,» he said.

New research finds the Athabasca River might not be a sustainable source of water oil companies need for the tar sands.

Considering the likely election of the NDP, prospects for the tar sands pipelines look dubious, even if one can not discount the potential threat of legal action by Kinder Morgan to defend its right under free trade legislation to build whatever it pleases

What are the economics of pipelines with multi-billion dollar price tags when the price of oil is now at about $ 40, well below the break - even point of $ 65 - 70 for tar sands producers and the $ 8 or so to ship a barrel of oil by pipeline?

Certainly the economic yield is better than corporate subsidies for tar sand development, clean coal and automotive bailouts.

In a world that has committed to quickly reduce its reliance on fossil fuels in the coming decades, will there be a sustained market for tar sands oil to support Kinder Morgan's proposal?

The recent gusher in shale oil from North Dakota and elsewhere may reduce the demand for tar sands oil here in the U.S., at least in the short term.

The State Department argued that Keystone XL would have little effect on tar sands production because rail could provide an equally feasible and economic transportation option for tar sands.