Sentences with phrase «impacts of tar sands»

For example, after the pipeline was rejected, the National Academy of Sciences published a significant report on the impacts of tar sands on watersways.

Tar Sands and Unconventional Fossil Fuels In a previous post «Silence Is Deadly» I wrote, «The environmental impacts of tar sands development include: irreversible effects on biodiversity and the natural environment, reduced water quality, destruction of fragile pristine Boreal forest and associated wetlands, aquatic and watershed mismanagement, habitat fragmentation, habitat loss, disruption to life cycles of endemic wildlife particularly bird and caribou migration, fish deformities and negative impacts on the human health in downstream communities.»

Be honest about the thousands of treaty rights violations the government is being sued for because of the impacts of tar sands development.

Protesters fear environmental damage, especially from possible oil spills; are frustrated with oil companies» grip on US politics; and condemn the impacts of tar sands exploitation on the boreal forest and First Nations in Canada.

As my colleague Trey Pollard said in a Business Week article, «The review will be a meaningless document unless it includes a serious review of the very serious climate impacts of the tar sands development the pipeline will trigger.»

Please watch this powerful video from Gasland's Josh Fox on the devastating environmental impact of tar sands oil and the on - going Tar Sands Action taking place at the White House.

Another issue was about the impact of tar sands on water.

While the climate impact of the tar sands and Northwest coal exports are both undeniably grim, it is the more visceral concerns about groundwater pollution that have energized both liberal environmentalists and conservative representatives (eg Nebraska's governor) to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline.

At the same time the climatic impact of tar sands have been deliberately downplayed.

Not exact matches

In the 1970s, AOERP had concerns about the impact of sulphur oxide emissions and the resulting acid rain on lakes in the tar sands area in northeastern Alberta.

And in the environmental impact statement, Pilgrim officials wrote: «While crude oil shipment downriver is a relatively recent phenomena on the Hudson River, the increasing production of crude in North America because of fracking, and Canadian tar sands, is likely to result in increasing demand to move the crude oil to coastal areas for shipment to refineries.

Regarding Keystone, I myself think it is clear that Obama should say no to Keystone, because it is something in his power to do, which would have some effect on retarding development of the tar sands (despite what the flawed State Department EIS [Environmental Impact Statement] said), and because we really wouldn't get any significant benefit from saying yes; no real oil security, few permanent jobs, and most of the money goes to Canada and to refiners in free - trade zones.

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

The statement estimates, and then dismisses, the pipeline's massive carbon footprint and other environmental impacts, because, it asserts, the mining and burning of the tar sands is unstoppable.

The Nature Climate change paper by Swart and Weaver about the impact of the oil / tar sands on climate made quite a splash in Canada.

The New York Time's Elisabeth Rosenthal and Dan Frosch today gave a lot of ink in the «Paper of Record» to the State Department's decision to hire Cardno Entrix, an environmental contractor based in Houston, to write a portion of its environmental impact statement (EIS) for the permit of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

Third, stack up the impacts of the climate disruption that burning tar sands oil leads to.

Critics of the TransCanada pipeline have warned of potential spills in America's heartland as well as the climate impacts of allowing more tar sands oil, which has a higher carbon footprint than conventional sources, into the US and other markets.

This legacy of broken promises to establish strict measures to address the growing and negative impacts on the water resources of the tar sands region, Droitsch maintains, deserves more attention and scrutiny particularly as the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is being reviewed by the U.S. State Department.

An overwhelming objection is that exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts... [I] f emissions from coal are phased out over the next few decades and if unconventional fossil fuels including tar sands are left in the ground, it is conceivable to stabilize earth's climate.

This is a critical element of the draft environmental review because while State determined that tar sands is dirtier than conventional oil, it concludes that Keystone XL would have little impact on the expansion of tar sands and therefore policymakers and the public needn't consider the impacts of that expansion.

Those include pipeline safety, consideration of alternate pipeline routes, and the impact the pollution from U.S. refineries processing Canadian tar sands will have on the poor who live nearby.

Within the next week or so, Casey - Lefkowitz told SolveClimate News in an interview, a coalition of advocates will be preparing an in - depth analysis of the 320 - page draft supplemental environmental impact statement for the proposed 1,702 - mile Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

We analyzed how much carbon tar sands oil produces and assessed the climate impact of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding that building it would unleash a massive expansion of tar sands development and cause a dramatic increase in carbon pollution.

What this spill revealed was that no one knew the impact of pushing bitumen, unrefined tar sands oil, through pipes regulated for conventional oil.

And at the moment every single major pipeline (as well as incremental expansions to existing pipelines) is facing mounting public, legal, and political opposition — all of which has been driven by people power that refuses to accept the devastating impacts of the Alberta tar sands on the climate, the environment, human rights, and communities.

And in the case of the Alberta tar sands — it has created circumstances where no new growth will be profitable in the sector unless they can overcome growing a movement that starts on the front lines with First Nations and impacted communities, and extends across the country, the continent, and the world.

For example, the State Department's EIS for Keystone XL claimed that the approval of any one pipeline project is unlikely to have significant climate impacts because other tar sands pipelines are sure to be built in the future, allowing unchecked tar sands expansion in any scenario.

In preparing its EIS for the Alberta Clipper expansion, the State Department has an obligation to analyze the project's cumulative climate impacts in the context of Keystone XL and other past and future tar sands pipelines.

Dr. James Hansen (NASA): An overwhelming objection is that exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize the climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts.

Useful quantitative measures of the increasing ecological impacts are provided by the history of oil development in Alberta, Canada for production of both conventional oil and tar sands development.

Additional escalation of the mining impact occurs as conventional oil mining is supplanted by tar sands development, with mining and land disturbance from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times greater than conventional oil production per unit area [152], but with substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].

A new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and Oil Change International quantifies for the first time the financial and carbon impact of public opposition to pipelines and other expanded investment in tar sands production.

«An overwhelming objection is that the exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts... governments are acting as if they are oblivious to the fact that there is a limit on how much fossil fuel carbon we can put into the air.»

The communities along this corridor have long faced health impacts and pollution from these refineries, and the pollution is only getting worse as the refineries accept and process tar sands crude, which exposes residents to even greater levels of toxic chemicals, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, lead, carbon dioxide, and other harmful pollutants.

Reading through the assessment section on Climate Change Impacts, it seems the State Department only took into account the impacts of climate change on the pipeline project, rather than the far more important analysis of the impacts of Keystone XL and tar sands expansion driving climate change disrImpacts, it seems the State Department only took into account the impacts of climate change on the pipeline project, rather than the far more important analysis of the impacts of Keystone XL and tar sands expansion driving climate change disrimpacts of climate change on the pipeline project, rather than the far more important analysis of the impacts of Keystone XL and tar sands expansion driving climate change disrimpacts of Keystone XL and tar sands expansion driving climate change disruption.

Like the last such report, it found that approving a 800,000 barrel - a-day fuse to one of the planet's biggest carbon bombs was «unlikely to have a substantial impact» on the tar sands or the climate.

-LSB-...] tar sands emits more greenhouse gases (GHGs)-- although the incremental impact of increased GHGs is not as large as environmentalists purport it to be.

The new impact statement says that extracting, shipping, refining and burning oil from the tar sands produces more climate - altering greenhouse gases than most conventional oil, but less than many of the project's critics claim.

Tar sands impacts on people, climate and the environment — from Canada to Africa By: Friends of the Earth Published: February 2011 This fact sheet basically explains how much the global development of tar sands will magnify the climate crisis and damage the environment and development objectivTar sands impacts on people, climate and the environment — from Canada to Africa By: Friends of the Earth Published: February 2011 This fact sheet basically explains how much the global development of tar sands will magnify the climate crisis and damage the environment and development objectivtar sands will magnify the climate crisis and damage the environment and development objectives.

With the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in the middle of its environmental impact assessment by the U.S. State Department, getting a better understanding of what raw tar sands oil in a pipe means for our environment and safety is more important than ever.

If agreed by states, LCFS could have a significant impact on the sale of fuels derived from Canadian tar sands in the United States, regardless of any decision the Obama administration makes over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

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.

Calls for a thorough and detailed supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that includes evaluation of impacts on local communities.

Another study detailing the negative environmental effects of continued tar sands development in Canada, and how independent review finds much greater impact that either the industry or government cares to

With all the increased attention Canada's tar sands projects have been getting — both in terms of environmental impact and distributing them through pipeline into the United States — it's not surprising that many

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

But the tar sands are unlikely to make a large impact on overall supply of liquid fuels because their supply is likely to be rate, rather than total resource limited.

Despite efforts to use carbon capture and storage as a distraction, there's no getting around the massive environmental impact of Canada's tar sands: At least 5 times the carbon emissions as conventional oil, huge water pollution

Melina Laboucan - Massimo of the Lubicon Cree First Nation in Alberta, said: «What happens here today will impact our families back home in the tar sands.