Sentences with phrase «just for the tar sands»
And that's just for the tar sands close enough to the surface — no more than 80 meters deep — to be mined.
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A Globe and Mail columnist and self - described Ontario climate hawk is calling for a just transition for tar sands / oil sands workers, as a key...
It was just the latest in a string of major setbacks for tar sands oil, which has become nearly as bad for corporate profits as it is for the environment.
The price for a barrel of bitumen, the tar - like oil sands that comes from Alberta, fell to just over $ 8 per barrel this week.
But even with such reduction, the problem of tapping tar sands for petroleum just keeps getting stickier.
Hence, ClimateAudit is really just an assault on science itself by a slick PR person working for Canada's oil, gas and tar sands industry.
That's just not true — it is intended for the tar sands projects.
For compulsive watchers of Enbridge Inc., the spill - crazy pipeline company that wants to pipe tar sands crude to the Canadian West Coast - or just for students of the barefaced lie - this video can't be beatFor compulsive watchers of Enbridge Inc., the spill - crazy pipeline company that wants to pipe tar sands crude to the Canadian West Coast - or just for students of the barefaced lie - this video can't be beatfor students of the barefaced lie - this video can't be beaten.
In Australia, campaigners have forced the four major banks to refuse financing for what would have been one of the world's biggest coal mines; BNP Paribas, the world's eighth - largest lender, just announced it was out of the tar - sands and coal business.
Again, it's not just that burning tar sands oil produces a lot of emissions; it's that long - term capital investments like Keystone (and coal plants, and coal export facilities) «lock in» those dangerous emissions for decades and make catastrophic climate disruption inevitable.
By CAROL LINNITT DeSmog Canada Tuesday, April 02, 2013 As Think Progress has just reported, a bizarre technicality allowed Exxon Mobil to avoid paying into the federal oil spill fund responsible for cleanup after the company's Pegasus pipeline released 12,000 barrels of tar sands oil and water into the town of Mayflower, Arkansas.
Tar sands expansion isn't just a pressing danger for the climate, it violates Indigenous rights and steamrolls over communities.
On the Thursday morning, just before their return flight, legislators did have a brief meeting with a representative from the Pembina Institute, an Alberta environmental group that calls for responsible exploitation of the tar sands.
Quebec Adopts Cap - and - Trade Program Canada as a whole may be getting rightly pilloried for its governmental enthusiasm for tar sands and obstructing the latest international climate talks, but here's a counter point: Montreal Gazette reports that Quebec has just adopted a cap - and - trade system.
If the oil industry wants to pipe these dangerous tar sands oils over our water sheds and aquifers, putting our drinking supply and neighborhoods at risk, they should not only be required to pay into the cleanup fund, they should be paying far more than the 8 cents per barrel they pay for conventional oil since these tar sands oils are not just worse for the environment, but potentially pose a greater risk of spills and are even harder to clean up.
We'll just have to continue to wait and see what happens, but make no mistake about it, the fact this conversation is even happening and that the future of KXL is still unknown is a huge victory for environmentalists and climate hawks who want to keep the tar sands «carbon bomb» from detonating.
It's not just the water toxicity that is huge problem for producing oil from the tar sands.
«The reason for fighting Keystone all along was not just to block further expansion of the tar sands; we also hoped that doing the right thing would jump - start Washington in the direction of real climate action,» McKibben wrote.
But once it corrects (or the economy just collapses), the tar sands will only be needed for aviation fuel (or not at all).
Just to give you an impression: we lived on the tar sands facility — we were planting for Syncrude at the time, but planting for a contractor — we got dropped off in the middle of an oily beach with oily sand as far as the eye could see.