Sentences with phrase «including oil sands»

Alberta alone accounts for more than 96 per cent of Canada's oil reserves and in 2010, about 140,000 people were directly employed in the mining, quarrying, oil and gas extraction sector, including the oil sands.

Canada, on the other hand, continues to invest heavily in developing oil and gas exports, including the oil sands, one of the world's most carbon - intensive fossil fuels.

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.

Renowned climate scientists in Canada and the United States are urging the Canadian government, which says it is close to announcing its new oil and gas regulations, to ensure that total greenhouse gas emissions, including oil sands emissions, go down.

Lastly, alternatives to conventional oil in the transport sector are growing rapidly, including oil sands, biofuels, electric vehicles, and natural gas vehicles.

His research focus is on unconventional fuels, primarily shale gas and tight oil, but also coalbed methane and other unconventional sources, including oil sands, coal gasification and gas hydrates.

«Now it's time for the government to unapologetically promote Alberta's emissions reduction successes to date and clearly articulate support for the long - term growth of Alberta's energy industry, including the oil sands, conventional production, natural gas power, cogeneration and renewable energy.»

Shell has been selling off billions of dollars worth of projects, including the oil sands, that it believes can't meet its new low - cost bar.

This includes the oil sands, tight oil and the Bakken deposits.

Martin Ignasiak, a partner in Osler Hoskin and Harcourt LLP's Calgary office, says many of his clients, which include oil sands players and electrical generation companies, prefer to err on the side of caution when it comes to consultation with First Nations, in order to minimize the risk their projects will fail to get approved.

Not exact matches

And as the Bank of Canada noted in its policy statement, prices are higher in part because of supply disruptions, including the Alberta oil sands.

Suncor provides a good, diversified example of the sector — Suncor markets oil sands products from a variety of operations, both mining and in situ operations, and sells both diluted bitumen and synthetic products including diesel fuel.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

For the past two years, OPEC's pump - at - will policies have flooded the market with cheap supply, causing economic pain for producers with higher cash costs, including those involved in fracking, the Canadian oil sands and deepwater drilling.

In March of 2008 the Canadian Boreal Initiative, the Pembina Institute and the Alberta Research Council published a report recommending the use of offsets in the oil sands region of Alberta as one tool to control the terrestrial impacts of oil sands development, including the impact on caribou.

From a strictly legal perspective, the relevant question is not whether there is a sufficient connection to any particular existing or proposed oil sands development or other production activity, and certainly not whether such projects or activities were included in the Terms of Reference (ToR), but rather simply whether the GHGs associated with the production of bitumen that will be transported by the NGP are an «environmental effect» of that project (see NGP Report, Volume II, Appendix 4, Terms of Reference, which defines «environmental effect» very broadly to mean «any change that the project may cause in the environment.»

More recently, though, the boycott has expanded to include a number of American retailers who have promised to refuse to use any petroleum products from the oil sands.

The report claims the emissions cap included in Alberta government's climate change plan will cost Canada's oil sands industry $ 250 billion and is the latest in a concerted effort by conservative opponents of the NDP to undermine its flagship policy.

The group of 18 includes representatives from municipal governments, First Nations, Metis communities, the energy industry, and environmental groups who will «advise government on the oil sands aspects of the Climate Leadership Plan and ensure that its initiatives are effective and widely supported.»

Pretty much any company connected to oil has fallen sharply in the last six months, including frack sand producers such as US Silica Holdings (NYSE: SLCA), Emerge Energy Services (NYSE: EMES), and Hi - Crush Partners (NYSE: HCLP).

After 9 - 11 I began attempting to boycott anything that has and will ever come out of the Middle East, which includes Judaism Catholiscism, Islam, oil and sand.

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

«The cargo they're moving in these barges and various smaller vessels include home heating oil, gasoline, petroleum products that are used in the valley itself, salt, sand, aggregates, construction materials, etcetera, the majority of which is for use by people that live in the Hudson Valley itself.»

They had multiple toxic exposures, including pesticides in their tents, smoke from oil fires, anti-nerve-gas pills and diesel fuel poured on the ground to keep the sand down.»

He and his colleagues found that over the course of four months, 11,400 tons of particulate matter — including bitumen and cancer - causing polycyclic aromatic compounds — were deposited within 30 miles of oil sands upgrading facilities belonging to two of Canada's major oil sands development companies, Suncor and Syncrude.

The recession «has given the oil sands industry a chance to step back and breathe,» says David McColl, head of oil sands studies at the Canadian Energy Research Institute, a nonprofit whose membership includes government departments, the University of Calgary, and energy companies.

Total oil production, including «unconventional» sources such as tar sands and shale oil, soon started to grow again.

Other key decisions include the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would pump oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries in Texas.

We encourage you to investigate and include significant direct and indirect emissions from all fuels, including conventional petroleum, heavy oils, natural gas for transportation, oil sand - based fuels, and the range of fuels used to power electrified transportation, consistent with the best available science.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

The fee for unconventional fossil fuels, such as oil from tar sands and gas from hydrofracking, should include carbon released in mining and refining processes, e.g., methane leakage in hydrofracking [245]--[249].

In contrast, we had nice returns in a number of our media, insurance and food stocks, among others, including Axel Springer, Schibsted, Zurich Insurance, Berkshire Hathaway, and Nestlé, but it was unfortunately not enough to overcome the continued pressure on our oil & gas stocks, which included fully integrated holdings such as Total and Royal Dutch; exploration and production companies such as Devon Energy and Pacific Rubiales; Canadian oil sands producers such as Cenovus; and energy service holdings such as Halliburton and National Oilwell Varco.

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Concerns included the footprint of the pipeline and it generally causing an increase in oil production from the oil sands in Alberta.

Its portfolio of assets includes conventional oil, oil sands, heavy oil, and natural gas pipelines, natural gas processing plants, fractionators, and midstream storage facilities, and it's a top pick of my Foolish colleague Jason Phillips.

The geological resources of Belize include oil, clays, barite, sand and gravel, granite, gypsum, quartz sand, dolomite and limestone.

For more relaxed activities you can take a leisurely island eco-walk, laze on the white sand beaches, or choose from a range of optional activities including a relaxing oil massage and Marineland visit.

Donna Huanca BLISS (REALITY CHECK), 2017 Mixed media installation including unique performance, sound piece, sand, plexi glass, wood, unique scent, oil, acrylic and pigment on plastic, latex, metal, horse hair, lead on a steel frame with aluminum fastenings Dimensions variable

His subject matter includes sources as diverse as Teutonic mythology and history, alchemy, and the nature of belief, all depicted in a bewildering variety of materials, including oil paint, dirt, lead, models, photographs, woodcuts, sand, straw, and all manner of organic material.

The exhibition will include several of Hart's large, colorful abstractions, many painted in oil with the addition of sand, along with selected early works that prefigure her development toward an abstract voice.

His subject - matter ranges over sources as diverse as Teutonic mythology and history, alchemy and the nature of belief, all depicted in a bewildering variety of materials, including oil paint, dirt, lead, models, photographs, woodcuts, sand, straw and all manner of organic material.

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).

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 otherOil 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 otheroil shales (among others).

This includes not only oil sands, but Venezuelan extra-heavy and oil shale as well.

Non-conventional liquids production has reached ~ 4.5 Mbbl / d since 1960, which includes EOR, oil sands, CTL, GTL, ethanol, biodiesel.

Such options include the inevitable expansion of Canada's own tar / oil sands (Keith Kloor has nicely knitted several views of this option), ever more coal production and the global push to tap greatly expanded reserves of natural gas.

Due to the successful delay of the Keystone XL pipeline, Canadian oil companies to consider alternate routes for getting tar sands to market, including the Energy East Pipeline to New Brunswick and the Northern Gateway, which would flow west to Vancouver.

In the weeks following the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline that spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil (or tar sands diluted bitumen) into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood and lake, the news about the spill was just one depressing story after the next as we learned that wildlife had been oiled, local residents, including children, were becoming sick, contaminated water was pumped into the lake, the media was being intimidated to reduce access and coverage and that Exxon may have known about the spill earlier than they are letting on.

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