Sentences with phrase «in the tar sands»

On this issue too it seems their heads are also firmly planted in the tar sands.

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.

Bitumen, the fuel component in tar sands, is nearly solid underground.

At the same time, we draw inspiration and lessons from the victory against Enbridge for the ongoing fight against Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which would see a sevenfold increase in tar sands tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea.

Canada currently produces about four million barrels of oil a day but 61 percent of that volume comes from high cost and carbon intensive mining in the tar sands.

There is a SITLA connection in the tar sands story that is getting some press these days.

The book also mentions Norway as a shining example regarding the tackling of climate change, but the world is more nuanced; Norway also pushed for more oil drilling in the Arctic, and is involved in tar sands in Canada, as well as oil exploration in Libya.

It might surprise many viewers that it would take three times the weight equivalent of CO2 in the energy needed just to convert the bitumen in the tar sands into the same amount of conventional crude oil.

If Keystone is blocked, there is a very high chance the Chineese will get the oil - they are reportedly investing heavily in the tar sands (and just about any other source of oil they can).

, 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.

Greenhouse - gas intensity in the tar sands is almost triple that of conventional oil.

Alberta's Energy Minister Ron Liepert said himself that his biggest fear is getting stuck with «landlocked bitumen,» the type of the oil in the tar sands.

It must be noted that it was conducted by firms connected to companies involved in tar sands production.

Essentially all the backsliding is attributable to growth in tar sands oil production in Alberta.

In January 2012, Global Forest Watch Canada reported that the eight Alberta caribou herds in the tar sands region already had 64 per cent industrial disturbance.

The enviros perceive Obama as making a concession to them, while the reality is that the bottleneck in the tar sands pipeline system is being actively relieved and the industry is getting what it really wanted as its top priority, which was to relieve the surplus oil at Cushing.

It expanded extraction using hydrofracturing in tar sands to increase activity in offshore oil drilling all over the world, thereby maximizing its rate of fossil fuel extraction and processing.

Police barricade protesters to separate the public from those in the tar sands sit - in on August 20th, 2011 in Washington, DC.

The UK and Canada must strengthen their energy relationship by increasing investment in tar sands and fracking, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) energy minister Matthew Hancock said at today's Europe - Canada Energy Summit in London.

Dutch Rabobank will now refuse loans to companies involved in tar sands and shale gas, citing the long - term financial and environmental risks are too large.

It ignores the pipeline's significant risk for toxic spills, ignores its catastrophic impacts on our climate, and ignores the clear consensus among financial analysts and oil executives who agree Keystone XL will make the difference in tar sands development.»

This pipeline has been fiercely opposed by Indigenous organizers in the tar sands, and along the pipeline route in Lakota country since it was first proposed.

In fact, despite the best efforts of Canadians across the country to take public transit and insulate their homes, pollution growth in the tar sands swamps all these gains.

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.

The advocacy group Oil Change International referred to petcoke as «the coal hiding in the tar sands» in a 2013 report documenting the carbon footprint of petcoke production and combustion.

The second largest dam on earth is holding back toxic sludge in the tar sands.

«That's a dynamic that's not on a lot of people's radars, but it's really at the heart of all of the questions around expansion in the tar sands.»

If we all the oil locked in the tar sands (1.63 trillion barrels), the average global temperature would increase 0.4 degrees Celcius — half of what we've already seen.

«If the long - standing trend of low royalty rates in the tar sands industry and the oil and gas sector as a whole continues, Albertans can expect to forgo significant and increasing amounts of potential revenue,» warns the report.

Secular Animist, Yes, and Warren Buffett is investing in tar sands, while T. Boone Pickens is investing in wind and buying up as much ground water as possible.

BP and Shell are two of our most trusted UK stocks, but it is a shocking fact that 30 % of Shell's oil reserves are in tar sands.

«Albertans have never received more than 20 per cent of the rent in the tar sands, and since 1997 have averaged only nine per cent,» says the Parkland report.

Nobody in the green movement will condone these illegal breaches — but few will be feeling too sorry for Monsanto or the oil companies involved in the tar sands, either.

BP is relying heavily on CCS claims as justification for tar sand developments in Canada, too — along with the U.S. State Department, which is blocking the EPA from having any say in tar sand imports to the United States.

Diluted bitumen, or dilbit, as it's called in the tar sands industry, is approximately three parts tar sands crude, one part natural gas liquids.

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.

But often I look back and see that the seeds of my environmental activism were sown at that time, when I was in the tar sands.

Not exact matches

Grantham also has strong views on the oil market, which isn't surprising for a devoted environmentalist who participated in Keystone pipeline protests and has called for the death of the «tar sands.»

The pipeline would connect Canada's tar sands with refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast that specialize in processing heavy crude oil.

«The cost of actually doing deep - sea drilling, the cost of doing fracking in North Dakota, the cost of tar sands, the cost of Arctic drilling is way, way, way higher than anyone admits,» Shah said.

Environmentalists have fought for years to stem Canadian oil sands production, which some call tar sands, in favor of cleaner energy.

Over the last few days, posts by Bill McKibben in the Guardian and by NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen on his own website at Columbia have again brought forward the statistic that, «the tar sands are estimated to contain at least 400 GtC (equivalent to about 200 ppm CO2).»

The report also counters warnings from environmentalists that the pipeline's construction would spur a huge increase in production from western Canada's tar sands, believed to be one of the biggest reserves of crude oil outside Saudi Arabia — unleashing torrents of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

It started in 2008, when my partner Kristin and I decided to go to Northern Alberta to fly over the tar / oil sands, to see for ourselves what had up until then been hidden from plain sight.

And International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol recently suggested that Canada should meet the challenge by expanding production in the Alberta tar sands and opening up the B.C. coast to oil and gas exploration.

BC doesn't need the tar sands and in fact has the potential to power much of Western Canada with clean renewables in perpetuity.

HSBC, the biggest bank in Europe and the world's seventh - largest, has resolved to stop funding Arctic drilling, tar sands / oil sands development, and most new...

Add in stolid First Nations resistance to a proposed pipeline from the tar sands to Kitimat, and all these powerful pressures converge on the aptly named Second Narrows, which already has seen its oil tanker traffic rise precipitously in the past decade.

He co-authored two significant studies that showed the tar sands industry was responsible for significant pollution of waterways in the region.

It was like Dix was haunted by classic BC NDP campaign gaffes throughout recent history... «restraint is over,» «can we start again,» «axe the tax» — so he decided not to say much of anything in order to avoid stepping into the, um, tar sands.