Sentences with phrase «keep tar sands»

These extra costs can be avoided by a robust implementation of the FQD, which would keep tar sands out of Europe.

As we've noted before, simply stopping the Keystone XL pipeline won't keep the tar sands in the ground, but it won't make them easier to bring to market.

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.

If you want to keep the tar sands flowing you will have to use all your gas.

With signs asking to keep tar sands in the ground cheekily blending with the orange party signs on both sides of Thomas Mulcair, and with folks interrupting his speech again and again with questions from within the crowd, they put pressure on Mulcair so as to clarify his position on Energy East.

Our case was bolstered by the statements made by the industry, banks, and investors on the need for the pipeline to keep tar sands oil flowing.

The environmental groups declared the arrival of the tanker an indictment of the European Union's climate action and called for urgent action to keep tar sands out of Europe.

Present economic trends may help keep tar sands carbon underground, however.

Everyday for the last several years we've stopped TransCanada and kept tar sands in the ground.

Not exact matches

Unwilling to press for a rational, staged development, Harper has ensured that tar sands expansion will continue to keep the value of the Canadian dollar high and make our manufactured goods uncompetitive.

Kinder Morgan can keep their pipeline, but Messrs. Weaver and Horgan have to get a law passed, that bans the importation of the dirty, tar sands into beautiful British Columbia.

But even with such reduction, the problem of tapping tar sands for petroleum just keeps getting stickier.

The draft law was kept on ice during trade talks between the European Union and Canada, the world's biggest producer of oil from tar sands, which culminated in a multi-million-dollar pact signed earlier this year.

And although Alberta currently boasts a carbon price of $ 15 per metric ton, it is not enough — at less than a dollar per barrel — to keep greenhouse gas pollution from the tar sands in check.

What the CTL folks are doing — just like the oil shale and tar sands folks are doing — is trying to find a way to keep supplying energy to a business - as - usual model in a world of rapidly rising energy demands.

«The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies,» said Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth U.S. «Rather than promoting dirty fossil fuels like tar sands and fracked natural gas, Obama and Barroso should be doing everything they can to keep these fuels in the ground and help avert climate catastrophe.»

Using the courts, political pressure, and grassroots power, we're fighting to keep dirty tar sands oil in the ground.

«Tar sands are deadly for our climate and must be kept in the ground and out of Europe.

In Arkansas, Exxon learned about the spill from a homeowner but kept pumping tar sands crude into the neighborhood for 45 minutes, and is bullying reporters who want to tell the public what's going on.

He mentioned wanting to keep climate change under 2 °C, but didn't acknowledge that in Canada that means keeping 85 % of the tar sands in the ground.

The details will eventually come out, but it looks like another case of Keystone Cops running around like chickens with their heads cut off while they try to keep us safe from the inevitable ruination that results when you try to put corrosive tar sands crude in a pipeline.

The Royal Society of Canada, a national academy that among other things provides advice to governments, found in its assessment of the tar sands that «reclamation is not keeping up with the rate of disturbance.»

So if CSS has almost no utility for reducing tar sands emissions, why does the Prime Minister of Canada keep claiming it does?

A possible scenario is not much happens with US coal but the Canadian tar sands keep coming.

According to theInternational Energy Agency, tar sands production would not exceed 3.3 million barrels per day if we are to have any hope of keeping the climate below the two degree threshold that has been recognized by the international community as necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change.

They also show that, even if we just hope to keep the increase below four degrees, then we canâ $ ™ t allow any expansion of the tar sands, and certainly no new pipelines such as Keystone and Northern Gateway to support any expanded use of fossil fuels.

If we just keep drilling, we're told time and again (and again), if we just tap into our plentiful domestic coal reserves, if we just build that tar sands pipeline, if we just let natural gas companies get in there and get the job done and get our natural gas trapped beneath our homes and farms.

In a video message released by TarSandsAction.org, Sen. Sanders said, «Building this pipeline will keep America addicted to oil, and while it might be a good idea for Koch Industries, which supplies and refines large volumes of Canadian tar sands oil, it is a bad deal for our country,» said Sen. Sanders.

Now if it could just find a way to keep its solar industry in business, and stop promoting Canadian tar sands, we'd really have something to sing about.

In the report, we calculate the amount of tar sands bitumen and associated carbon dioxide kept in the ground via the cancellation of these projects (0.2 billion tonnes to 2030 with 2.6 billion tonnes more over the potential lifetime of the projects).