Sentences with phrase «form of tar sands»

WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 8, 2015)-- The National Academy of Sciences today released a study on diluted bitumen (or «dilbit»), a raw form of tar sands oil making its way across North America in increasing volumes, that supports alarm bells raised by NRDC and other advocacy groups over the last decade.

This was first brought to light by Oil Change International (and soon echoed by Ryan Koronowski on Climate Progress and then by Carol Linnitt on DeSmog Canada), all of whom explained the bizarre technicality that exempts dilbit (or diluted bitumen, the transportable form of tar sands crude) from the taxes that fund the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

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More than 50 top European and U.S. scientists have written to the European Commission president urging him to press ahead with a plan to label tar sands as more polluting than other forms of oil, in defiance of intensive lobbying from Canada.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- More than 50 top European and U.S. scientists have written to the European Commission president urging him to press ahead with a plan to label tar sands as more polluting than other forms of oil, in defiance of intensive lobbying from Canada.

ExxonMobil admitted that the pipeline had been used to transport a molasses - like form of crude extracted from tar sands in Canada.

Nathan says high prices have made it increasingly economically viable to extract more unconventional forms of oil, in particular the asphaltlike tar sands (also known as oil sand, or extremely heavy crude oil) plentiful in northern Alberta, Canada.

Klein follows the «dark» money behind the propaganda of climate - change denial, the effort to dismantle the federal government to curtail corporate regulation, and the justification for the feverish pursuit of the riskiest forms of carbon - emission - producing energy from tar sands extraction to deep - water drilling, fracking, and mountaintop - removal coal mining.

But on the Keystone XL pipeline — which, if not blocked by President Obama, would carry the crudest form of oil from Canadian tar sand deposits to Gulf Coast fuel refineries — it seems there's little room for varied stances, at least according to some protesters.

She was, after all, Obama's secretary of state, and it was under her that the State Department issued a draft review approving Keystone XL that was sharply criticized by Obama's own EPA, but still approved in final form, despite the objection of expert critics such as James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who has argued that the big - picture global warming concerns mean that tar sands must be left in the ground:

With tar sands project, Canada looks like a scientifically illiterate high poverty desperate country trying to go after the dirtiest forms of energy when it does not have to.

Hydrogen from gas heats the tar sands so the viscous form of petroleum it contains, known as bitumen, can be liquefied and pumped out of the ground.

The spill presented a unique cleanup challenge, because 6B was carrying bitumen, a thick crude oil mined from Canada's tar sands region that is thinned with a cocktail of liquid chemicals to form diluted bitumen, or dilbit.

The sands contain naturally occurring mixtures of sand, clay, water, and a dense and extremely viscous form of petroleum technically referred to as bitumen (or colloquially «tar» due to its similar appearance, odour, and colour).

Whether you call them tar sands or oil sands, this resource is actually bituminous sand, a mixture of sand, clay, water and an extremely viscous form of petroleum called bitumen.

Tar Sands are a naturally occurring mixture of sand or clay, water and an extremely dense and viscous form of petroleum called bitumen.

Tar sands mining and other extreme forms of energy extraction like Arctic drilling, shale fracking, and nuclear power generation send us in the exact opposite direction that we, as a civilization, must go to ensure global survival.

In 1999, Canada surpassed Saudi Arabia as the United States» largest source of oil imports, and today a full half of the country's oil production comes from Alberta's so - called tar or oil sands: a form of petroleum found in a mixture of sand, clay, and bitumen that is either mined in pits or extracted by pumping steam into wells.

Now that we do know, it's imperative that we move quickly to alternate forms of energy — and that we leave the tar sands in the ground.

The Alberta tar sands, which cover 55,000 square miles in western Canada, are estimated to contain approximately 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen, a sticky, thick form of petroleum that can be extracted through both surface mining and drilling.

At Planet3.0, we've had our internal disagreement about this, with mt arguing that McKibben's and Hansen's approach is correct, and that tar sand bitumen is a good place to draw the line, while Dan M has argued that this is a sort of arbitrary decision, and the tar sands should be treated just as another form of fossil fuels, rather than a bright line that should not be crossed.

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.