Sentences with phrase «from tar»

Right now about 1.08 billion barrels a year (2.98 million bpd) are extracted from the tar sands and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers sees that increasing to 2.35 billion barrels a year (6.44 million bpd) by 2030.

More specifically, this means that no more than 7.5 billion barrels of oil can be extracted from the tar sands by 2050.

And by this I don't just mean from environmentalists who are unalterably opposed to any more pipelines from the tar sands (and I use that term advisedly in this context).

Currently, the pipeline Kinder Morgan bought in 2005 - the Trans Mountain Pipeline - is the only way oil from the tar sands is getting to export markets via the Pacific coast.

The main conclusions from the TAR on the macro-economic costs of mitigation can be summarized as follows.

TransCanada, the «energy transfer company» responsible for getting the incredibly dirty diluted bitumen oil from the tar sands in western Canada, and also potentially Bakken crude, to refineries in Quebec City and St. Johns, New Brunswick, has notified the Canadian government that it is cancelling its proposed Energy East pipeline project, citing slowing growth in -LSB-...]

industry requires investment — our gov» t isn't directing any of the «billions» it makes from the tar sands into green energy tech or even saving a penny of it for any useful reason.

We've covered the environmental damage caused by extraction of oil from the tar sands on so many occasions that I'll just refer you to TreeHugger archives at the previous link if you need to get up to speed.

Neither Andreas nor Gavin saw any reason why AR4 would be dramatically different from TAR with regard to journal references, though Gavin expected an increase.

And when you ask that question, the answer is not a barrel of oil from Saudi Arabia, and it is definitely not a barrel of oil from the tar sands in Alberta.

Increasingly larger volumes of liquid fuel made from tar sands oil may, in the future, be exported from US refineries with access to an oil pipeline originating in Alberta Canada.

Environmental advocates have long called for an outright rejection of the proposed pipeline expansion, citing past pipeline spills and the high levels of pollution that result from tar sands extraction.

Brandt found that the Shell ICP production process has GHG emissions that are similar to those from tar sands production in Alberta; and that the mining and retorting process has emissions significantly in excess of synthetic fuels produced from coal and over 4 times the emissions from conventional oil (Table 2).

Just this week, Shell was facing calls to disclose future carbon liabilities from its tar sands operations.

Steve: As Raven observes, this quote is from TAR.

The predominant summary statements from the TAR WGI strengthened the SAR's attribution statement: «An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system», and «There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.»

Achieving even this rate of production from tar sands is uncertain because of growing concerns about environmental impacts downstream and insufficient hydrogen and water.

These are shown, plotted from AD 700 in Figure 6.10 b, along with the three series from the TAR.

The gut - check issue for McKibben and his supporters — thousands of whom turned out for a mass demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17 — is the Keystone XL pipeline, a 3,400 - mile pipe proposed by oil infrastructure company TransCanada that will allow crude oil extracted from the tar sands of Alberta, in southern Canada, to be refined on the Gulf of Mexico.

Dudes, quit whining and step away from the tar sands.

Later this year, President Obama will decide whether to grant a permit for a pipeline running from the tar sands of Alberta.

The pipeline carries heavy crude from the tar sands of Canada to refineries near the Texas Gulf coast.

It's no secret, and safe to say, that TreeHugger isn't supportive of extraction oil from tar sands in Canada (or from oil shale in the Rockies for the matter).

From the Gulf of Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico, the whole country has been stitched together by pipelines filled with toxic materials extracted from offshore platforms in Prudhoe Bay, from the tar sands of Alberta, from the fracking fields of North Dakota.

Though exact estimates vary, a decent rule of thumb is that due to the high energy intensity of production, one barrel of oil from tar sands has carbon emissions up to eight times higher than one barrel of conventional petroleum.

As you likely know, oil from tar sands is considered to be among the dirtiest

It's not just the water toxicity that is huge problem for producing oil from the tar sands.

At the least, experts believe, it will delay the project, and perhaps bring some more attention to how destructive the practice of extracting oil from tar sands is.

Repeated a number of times is the stat about how much improvement has been made: Greenhouse gas emissions per unit of output from tar sands production have dropped 39 % since 1990 according to official figures — with a laundry list of improvements undertaken to reduce this aspect of their environmental impact.

In contrast, Whole Foods has already found one new fuel supplier, and is in the process of phasing out any use of fuels sourced from the tar sands.

WWF says reductions of 85 % would be required to reduce the emissions from tar sands extraction to be comparable to conventional oil production.

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.

The Alberta tar sands is taking another hit as two major retailers — Whole Foods and Bed Bath & Beyond — announced on Wednesday that they are moving to avoid using the petroleum products sourced from the tar sands for transporting product, according to a ForestEthics press release.

Even by 2050, the report says, CCS technology will be insufficient for fuel derived from tar sands to qualify under emerging low - carbon fuel standards, such as those in California and the European Union.

Oil produced from tar sands is a whole heck of a lot worse than conventionally sourced oil on many many fronts — and no amount of technology is likely to change that.

Despite the Alberta government's claims to the contrary, there is something changing for the worse downstream from the tar sands.

The objections to Keystone XL stem at least in part from widespread concern over the production of oil from tar sands, which ravages the landscape, pollutes rivers and emits high concentrations of greenhouse gases.

The process is so carbon intensive that to create oil from the tar sands emits at least five times more carbon dioxide then does the effort of processing «sweet crude» oil.

Now that most oil is produced off shore and other hostile environments, or from tar sands or from newly - discovered deposits at depths of up to 35,000 feet below the surface, the EROEI of oil production is now rarely as high as 20:1, and for new oil fields much less.

Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil was investing its massive $ 45 billion in earnings in maximizing extraction and processing of oil and gas, including the controversial use of hydrofracturing (fracking) to extract fuel from tar sands and the expansion of offshore oil drilling.

«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.

To extract the bitumen from the tar sand, huge swaths of the North America's wilderness have been replaced with toxic lakes, open - pit mines, refineries and oil pipelines.

The Church said # 12 million worth of investments in companies making 10 % or more of their revenues from the production of coal or oil from tar sands would be sold.

«Trailbreaker would take away Ontarians choice of oil — it would be dirty oil from the tar sands and nothing else.»

For the year 2000, the global mean values from the TAR and median model differ by only — 0.13 W m — 2.

The review used this assumption to get out of any meaningful consideration of the climate pollution from tar sands expansion, and in this time of worsening climate change that is not acceptable.

The risks of spills from tar sands pipelines are high and U.S. safety regulations are not enough to protect special places such as the Great Lakes, the Nebraska Sandhills and the Ogallala Aquifer.

Radiative forcings for the period 2000 to 2100 for the SRES A1B scenario diagnosed from AOGCMs and from the TAR (IPCC, 2001) forcing formulas (Forster and Taylor, 2006).

The graph shows the longwave forcings from the TAR and 20 AOGCMs in the multi-model ensemble from 2000 to 2100.

Canadians hoping Alberta's oil exports from its tar and oil sands will expand may be disappointed.