Sentences with phrase «from tar shale»

The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century.

Not exact matches

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

Shaken by shale oil production in the United States, softening demand from China and Europe, and rising global concern about climate change, Canada's tar...

The Canadians have also had success in obtaining liquid fuels from the tar sands which accompany the shales.

Whether such a quantity can be produced from tar sands and oil shale at a price near (never mind below) $ 30 per barrel is highly uncertain, but more suggestive of Lomborgs confusion in any case is that the price he mentions is higher (according to his own Figure 65) than the price of oil has been for any prolonged period in the last 120 years except for 1979 - 86, in the aftermath of the second (1979) Arab - OPEC oil - price shock.3 This means resources of tar sands and oil shale that would be economically exploitable only at prices around $ 30 per barrel are in fact more expensive than oil has been for nearly all of the last century.

Of the 6 mb / d increase in global oil production between 2006 and 2014, almost a fifth came from the Canadian tar sands, and the rest from the US «shale oil revolution» driven by fracking.

Exxon was also concerned about reports that synthetic oil made from coal, tar sands and oil shales could significantly boost CO2 emissions.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

Reject Greenhouse Gas emissions reductions schemes that come from high - risk technologies which create irreversible damage to human and planetary health including tar sands, shale gas, nuclear energy, and geo - engineering;

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

Gasoline from traditional sources, including these harebrained schemes to go offshore and onto ANWR, is inseparable from tar sands and oil shale, which are far more abundant and destructive (as Raypierre pointed out).

However, peak oil means a double whammy — it reducec GHG emissions from oil, however, there is the danger, that we switch to coal - to - liquids, gas - to - liquids, tar sands and oil shales, just because increases in energy efficiency, solar and wind output are not enough to counter population increase, decrease in oil availability, and increase in total energy consumption...

With regard to difficulty, some parallels with other inefficient ideas like shale oil (tar sands), biofuels (particularly from corn), and on the way - out fringe, the moon and mars.

My problem with Peak Oil is that once it is upon us it will trigger a desperate search for alternatives that will include making gasoline from coal, tar sands and oil shales (among others).

Despite our talk, the reality is that we and others are searching everywhere for more oil — from new oil fields, tar sands, oil shales, or anywhere else they may be hiding.

To preserve our planet we must also ensure that the next mobile energy source is not obtained by squeezing oil from coal, tar shale or other fossil fuels.

To what extent conservation measures, investments in alternative energy production, and efforts to expand petroleum production from tar sands and shale would mitigate such a period of adjustment is difficult to predict.

The great bulk of their investments goes to traditional petroleum resources, including carbon - intensive energy sources like tar sands and natural gas from shale, while alternative investments account for a tiny fraction of their spending.

In Australia much of the financial support for Abbott's Liberal Party comes from the coal industry while in Canada PM Harper's support comes from the highly polluting tar - sands and oil - shale mining businesses.

In its analysis, State relies on statistics that pertain to rail transport of shale oil from North Dakota but that do not apply to Alberta's tar sands.

Even if other production comes on line, e.g. from unconventional sources such as tar sands in Alberta or shale in the American West, their relatively high cost of production could permit low - cost producers, particularly Saudi Arabia, to increase production, drop prices for a time, and undermine the economic viability of the higher - cost competitors, as occurred in the mid-1980's.

The second figure shows that if coal emissions were thus phased out between 2010 and 2030, and if emissions from unconventional fossil fuels such as tar shale were minimized, atmospheric CO2 would peak at 400 - 425 ppm and then slowly decline.

Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to modify leasing guidelines for: (1) lands within special tar sand areas; (2) oil shale deposits and expanded lease acreage; and (3) lease exclusion from any chargeability limitation associated with oil and gas leases.

Tar sands producers lost $ 30.9 billion from 2010 through 2013 due to transportation bottlenecks and the flood of crude coming from shale - oil fields.

BNP Paribas recently announced that it was restricting financing for oil and gas projects from shale and / or oil from tar sands as well as exploration and production projects in the Arctic.

None of the models presented at the session included carbon dioxide emissions from unconventional fossil fuels like tar sands, methane hydrates or oil shale.

and George Bush, perhaps with an eye towards the fuel riots going on around the world, jumps and proposes the new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: 1) drilling offshore, 2) drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 3) adding refineries, and 4) extracting oil from shale, which makes the Alberta Tar Sands look environmentally benign.

Still, there's a far cry from using up the rest of the oil to using all the oil + coal + tar sands + oil shale....

Oil Shale Development a Climate Change + Water Disaster In case you hadn't heard, developing oil shale is just as bad (if not worse in some ways) from an environmental perspective as tar sands.

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 First Nations and allies in British Columbia standing up to the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline to civil society and frontline communities in Argentina demanding a different development pathway to avoid the dangerous exploitation of massive shale oil and gas reserves, the resistance is global.