Sentences with phrase «increased oilsands production»

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In fact, with oil prices increasing only with inflation from $ 18 / bbl in 2000, the NEB expected total oilsands production to reach 1.6 million barrels per day by 2015.

The effects of oilsands production on climate change must be confronted sooner or later — and given the increasing incidence of weird weather and coastal flooding, probably sooner.

Canadian Natural production averaged a record 1.02 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in the fourth quarter, a 19 per cent increase from the year - earlier period, as it ramped up the latest expansion of its Horizon oilsands mining and upgrading project.

Thus, an analysis by the Canadian environmental think tank Pembina Institute found that Keystone XL would be a «key driver for oilsands growth,» increasing production by 36 percent.