Sentences with phrase «in oil sands»

Before she was a lawyer she drove mining trucks in the oil sands of Northern Alberta, served tables in Calgary, studied and worked on two continents and completed post-graduate work at UBC.

In Calgary, things were challenging in the oil sands industry since 2008.

Are EC's concerns specifically related to the nature of the contaminants in the oil sands development vs the other polluted rivers which may be contaminated different things?

Simply put, Cenovus, Suncor, Shell and CNR likely stood behind Notley because they believe they are — or can be — the most efficient operators in the oil sands.

Also last month, insurer Axa said it's pulling $ 2.8 billion from coal interests, nixing investment in oil sands operations and ceasing to insure these projects.

There's little doubt that, if adopted globally, this would greatly reduce demand for coal and oil and it would almost certainly mean the end for high - emissions, high - cost oil production in the oil sands, for example.

But the growth of emissions in the oil sands would make the overall effort far more difficult, said Dale Marshall, a policy analyst with the David Suzuki Foundation.

Basically, it's an estimate of the carbon contained in the oil sands buried in Northern Alberta.

Technology can not reduce the environmental impacts / footprint to zero in the oil sands industry any more than it can in any other heavy industry (e.g., mining, smelting, forestry, power generation).

The Alberta government, a one party state for 41 years, now heavily subsidizes foreign oil companies to extract bitumen in the oil sands says a public interest group.

Drilling Down: Groundwater Risks Imposed by In Situ Oil Sands Development provides clear, achievable recommendations for improving groundwater management, assessment and monitoring in the oil sands region.

This is perhaps most evident in the oil sands.

In fact, State Department officials recognized that progress in oil sands development has led to Canadian crude oil from oil sands that is «similar in composition and quality to the crude oils currently transported in pipelines in the U.S. and being refined in Gulf Coast refineries.»

He echoed Andrew Leach at the University of Alberta's point that while the climatologist James Hansen has said that burning all the crude in the oil sands -LSB-...]

Each day more than 300 million cubic feet (91 million cubic metres) of natural gas is used to extract the oil in the oil sands.

Since prices crashed, oil companies have delayed or cancelled $ 200 billion in projects, and nearly 30 percent of those are in the oil sands, according to a recent Wood Mackenzie report.

In an editorial board meeting with Globe and Mail Prentice admitted: «CCS is not the silver bullet in the oil sands.»

A recent study by Adam Brandt of the Stanford University School of Earth Sciences notes that at $ 40 we can expect no more than one additional carbon - capture project in the oil sands, capturing 1.6 megatonnes of carbon.

Quest is the first commercial application of CCS in the oil sands industry.

Having grown up in the oil sands region, she witnessed the impacts of oil sands development on her Nation's people, culture, and land.

The oil sands [are], because now you're looking at a situation where the only long - duration oil that's still available and isn't tied up by governments and sovereign wealth funds and everything else is in the oil sands.»

The FSEIS stated that KXL «is unlikely to significantly affect the rate of extraction in oil sands areas (based on expected oil prices, oil - sands supply costs and supply - demand scenarios».

This will help them access capital, or reduce its cost, which will facilitate further investment in the oil sands, leading to more production and therefore more emissions.

Mike Hudema took issue mainly (or at least first) with my near - exclusive focus on GHG emissions, highlighting as I had that many other environmental concerns exist in the oil sands, and that all of these taken together compromise the social license to operate the oil sands.

And the real success would be if CCS could be applied in a post-combustion scenario, on the turbines and boilers,» which he says are a major source of greenhouse gases in the oil sands sector.

Scale certainly is an issue in the oil sands, notes Chris Severson - Baker, managing director of the Pembina Institute, a Canadian environmental organization that monitors the industry via www.oilsandswatch.org.

This was primarily due to the low cost of decarbonizing coal - based electricity in the U.S. versus Canada's largely decarbonized electricity system and high costs of reducing emissions in the oil sands.

Most of the oil shipped on the line will come from Canadian oil sands producers, which have been under from some U.S. environmental groups and legislators for boosting greenhouse gas emissions because of expanding production in the oil sands — a Florida - sized region of northern Alberta that contains the largest oil reserves outside the Middle East.

Projected growth in natural gas consumption in oil sands production.

Carbon capture and storage at large upgrading and refining facilities (e.g., the Shell Quest project) could result in significant reductions in oil sands CI.

There are several examples of this in operations in the oil sands.

The Government of Canada and Government of Alberta unveiled «The Joint Canada - Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring» in a partnership to improve environmental monitoring in the oil sands region with a program that will sample more sites for more substances more frequently.

Patrick Moore, the former Greenpeace member and co-founder, was quick to write a letter to the editor of the Toronto Star following a column I wrote in which I argued that more attention needs to be paid to the potential of geothermal heat and power in the oil sands, particularly before we head down a path that includes nuclear.

The thing is, you don't need unproven depths to tap heat in the oil sands.

This is then used in the oil sands production.»

Suncor is targeting 1 million barrels per day output in 2020, with its growth in the oil sands underpinned by its alliance with Total.

«The CO2 numbers [in the oil sands] sound frightening when only the production and refining are taken into account... Yet once the oil is burned, a variety of sources say the total lifecycle impact of oil sands relative to the average crude used in the U.S. is much smaller, including the Council on Foreign Relations (17 percent higher emissions) and Cambridge Energy Research Associates (5 - 15 percent).»

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That's basically the position of the State Department in its draft Environmental Impact Statement [PDF], which says Keystone is «unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in the oil sands.»

Some 1,600 ducks died after landing in an oil sands waste pit several years ago.

Canada committing to a five-fold expansion in oil sands production in a «relatively short time span.»

According to the minutes of the Houston meeting, this massive increase in the oil sands production will mean Canada has to «streamline» environmental regulations for new energy projects.

Turning down XL, in contrast, draws a line in the oil sands, and affirms the principle that this carbon shall not pass into the atmosphere.

Based on information and analysis about the North American crude transport infrastructure (particularly the proven ability of rail to transport substantial quantities of crude oil profitably under current market conditions, and to add capacity relatively rapidly) and the global crude oil market, the draft Supplemental EIS concludes that approval or denial of the proposed Project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area.

This is a truly seismic change, and may mean some big changes in the oil sands and pipeline debates.

Trump is a major proponent of Keystone, a pipeline that would likely spur investment in the oil sands.

The production firms like Suncor Energy (NYSE: SU) located in the oil sands are clear winners from the pipeline construction.

Considered the blue collar city of Alberta's oil patch, much of the wealth comes from tradespeople who work in the oil sands.

Considered the blue collar city of Alberta's oil patch much of the wealth comes from tradespeople that work in the oil sands.

Frank Gu, a professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo and Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology Engineering, is the senior researcher on the team that was the first to find that photocatalysis — a chemical reaction that involves the absorption of light by nanoparticles — can completely eliminate naphthenic acids in oil sands wastewater, and within hours.