Sentences with phrase «future oil sand»

2) The prospect of having to live with expensive price discounts for years takes a big toll on the economics of future oil sand production economics (for once, discount rates work in the Greens» favour).

If the price of a barrel drops too much, future oil sand plans are at risk and modular buildings won't be needed at that point.

If the price of a barrel drops too much, future oil sand plans are at risk and modular buildings won't be needed at that point.

The Panel excluded any discussion of the environmental impacts of oil sands development, although they did allow the consideration of increased oil prices generated by the pipeline on the taxes and royalties associated with forecast future oil sands production.

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.

Not exact matches

The B.C. government has pinned much of the province's economic future on LNG exports, saying the projects are equivalent to Alberta's oil sands in terms of jobs and revenue generation.

The future viability of oil sands projects depends not just on your view of world oil prices — it depends just as much on how these factors evolve, in particular discounts to Canadian heavy products and the Canadian dollar.

Since July, oil prices have fallen significantly, and with them the revenue earned or expected from oil sands projects, present and future.

Proposed carbon pricing legislation in the U.S. as well as low carbon fuel standards being adopted by California and other states could make many oil sands projects marginal or entirely uneconomic in future.

For this analysis to hold water, you'd have to show that the barrels which would be transported by Keystone XL are, in fact, the marginal future barrels of oil sands production.

In theory, oil sands operators are required to pledge financial security to pay for future reclamation costs as they build new mines.

The future of proposed studies on nanoparticles and oil sands contaminants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) may now be dead.

The future of the oil sands lies with the growth of oil demand in Asian markets, not in American ones.

... commit to a decision of where you see the Alberta oil sands and the future for the sands and the exporting of bitumen

The risks associated with future toxic waste from the oil sands are, in some ways, more worrying than the much more widely known global warming ones.

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.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley's political future depends on landing a pipeline to carry heavy oil from the Alberta oil sands to tankers off the B.C. coast, and she is adamant a proposal by Kinder Morgan to expand its existing pipeline must proceed.

Given that the pipeline is anticipated to create about $ 4 billion per year in profits to the Enbridge shareholders and oil sands producers, these are odious profits that come at the expense of people in other countries and into the future.

Overly optimistic projections of future oil supply, which are much higher than the latest NEB projections and don't consider the Alberta government's cap on oil sands emissions imposed by its Climate Leadership Plan.

However, given the company's strong balance sheet, future growth plans, and the strong long - term potential future of America's shale oil and gas production, I remain bullish on frac sand producers in general, and US Silica specifically.

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.

However, greatly increased future production of heavy oil, tar / oil sands and bitumen in Canada and other countries with huge anounts of these carbon intensive fuel resources is now in full swing.

But the oil industry is pushing as hard as ever for their pet project, and we need to show the president the connection between decisions to import tar sands and a future full of Sandys.

Environmentalists» statements about the massive greenhouse impact from oil - sand carbon don't mention that it would take a millennium or more, even at a breath - taking rate of extraction of, say, 5 million barrels a day, for that CO2 impact to be fully realized (as if no new energy options, or methods for sopping up CO2, will arise in the future), as pointed out by Andrew Leach last June:

, we could still be the leader in developing safer clean energy for the future and producing a better future for our children, rather than going after the last drop of oil in pristine environments, off - shore, in the tar sands.

I've not seen a single one mention concerns about climate change as being relevant to the future of fracking, oil sands, etc — it's not just Fidelity.

Anecdotes only: as in a recent quote from a French oil executive.AFP's story, Canada's tar sands are the future of oil production: Total is the source of this particular quote.

The first - of - its - kind proposal asked Chevron to increase dividend payments to shareholders instead of spending so much on unconventional oil, tar sands and other projects that could be rendered unprofitable by future climate policies or a related drop in oil prices.

High carbon fossil fuels - in particular tar sands, the most destructive and carbon intensive source of oil - have no place in our future or in our economy.

Further, shutting down the oil sands would have a negligible impact on both our own transition to a green economy and the global transition to this future utopia.

It would also send a strong signal to firms operating in all of our industrial sectors including the oil sands that those firms which generate the highest value per unit of carbon will win, and thus create an energy industry in Alberta which is prepared to withstand the carbon constrained world in which we are likely to find ourselves for the foreseeable future.

Proposed carbon pricing legislation in the U.S. as well as low carbon fuel standards being adopted by California and other states could make many oil sands projects marginal or entirely uneconomic in future.

The most significant source of Alberta's future emissions is the production of bitumen, the thick oil that is mined from the tar sands.

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

If oil sands production were not expanded beyond today's level, the future emissions for Canada would look something like the green line in the graph below.

The many research and technology advancements that have consistently improved oil sands production have been chronicled in the IHS CERA study Oil Sands Technology: Past, Present, and Futuoil sands production have been chronicled in the IHS CERA study Oil Sands Technology: Past, Present, and FutuOil Sands Technology: Past, Present, and Future.

Oil sands crude is critically important now and will be into the future, IHS says — which is why we here in the United States should be ever so grateful for our energy partnership with Canada and attentive to ways that relationship can be strengthened.

The proposed future development of the oil sands constitutes a serious moral problem.

I'm still not entirely comfortable with nuclear but I admit ignorance there and thus don't really advocate directly against it (PS somewhat the same position with GM foods / crops); what I know enough to be afraid of and advocate against is a BAU future of coal, oil, and gas, especially one without CCS or other sequestration, with mountaintop removal mining, with tar sands, with fracking (you may already be aware of the radioactivity associated with that), Hg, escalating prices, etc (and you would be against this too, I'm sure).

Nevertheless it appears that tar sands will be a competitive source of oil for the indefinite future.

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.

Two of the most environmentally destructive practices on the planet, palm oil plantations and tar sands exploitation, in one country in exchange for an unlikely sustainable future.

The mandate of the joint review panel ensured that it focused on risks which can be mitigated without harming the pipeline or the prospect of future of oil sands development while ignoring the larger risks that can't be so easily mitigated.

Common Dreams By Jessica Corbett 6 Feb 2018 Michael Foster, the valve turner who temporarily halted the flow of tar sands oil in TransCanada's Keystone pipeline in October 2016, called for future actions to address the global climate crisis before he headed to prison, where he is expected to serve at least a year of his three - year sentence.