Sentences with phrase «like the oil sands»

At the root of today's problem is global demand that is no longer growing quickly enough to support the prices necessary to keep expanding expensive unconventional sources of supply like the oil sands.

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.

Washington's emerging resolve to regulate against high carbon emitting fuels like the oil sands.

Not exact matches

Given the projected growth in the oil sands, this might seem like a sure thing, but it's not.

Projects like the Keystone Pipeline (to bring Canada's oil sands to American refineries) are unlikely ever to be built.

Unlike Prime Minister Stephen Harper's laser - like focus on Alberta's oil sands, though, Abbott's fixation is coal.

The oil sands supply curve might look something like this:

Soon, Lake explains, he'll start looking for a lifestyle increasingly on offer to mobile young people like him: work at a northern Alberta oil sands project, but live further south, either flying in and out of a camp or driving up once a week.

Good thing for those U.S. engineering companies there are no «Buy Canadian» provisions in oil sand contracts like there are «Buy American» provisions in U.S. federal procurement.

I am not suggesting that an oil sands project like Shell's could never be «justified in the circumstances» under CEAA, 2012.

I think of King Digital as kind of like being a small oil sands company in Canada.

To be certain, the opposition to projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry Alberta oil sands products to US markets, and the Northern Gateway pipeline, which would carry oil sands products to a new west coast terminal for export to Pacific markets, has caused delays and increased costs to proponents.

The oil - sands crowd, which hasn't won one of these fights in a while, will discard an unsteady champion like Notley for one who seems more fierce: Jason Kenney.

The oil sands, like any oil or gas resource, are being developed in response to continued and growing demand for oil and related products.

Matt Ridley, for example, in his recent book, The Rational Optimist, argues that the oil sands are a much more sane solution to current energy needs than things like wind (too unreliable and too little output) and biofuels (wasteful use of land).

Part of the reason for the rising supply is that unconventional methods of oil extraction like tar sands and hydraulic fracturing have yielded greater oil supplies than expected.

But that's not all — the organization has also produced great videos on topics like fracking, in situ oil sands production, liquefied natural gas, and hydrogen.

Oil majors like Shell and Statoil are pulling out of the tar sands already.

For the no - bake crust, I stirred together melted coconut oil and crumbled graham crackers until the mixture felt like wet sand.

In either a medium bowl, or in the bowl of a standing mixer, add the vegetable oil and sugar and mix for about 30 seconds, or until it looks like wet sand.

Pulse oats, whole wheat flour, coconut oil, agave, cocoa, salt, and cinnamon in a food processor until oats are coarsely ground and mixture looks like wet sand.

Any natural resources like oil, gas, metals, salt, even geothermal activity etc. (with the exception of sand, gravel, clay) do not belong the owner, but are considered ownerless until mined which needs a separate admission from the government (Some specific natural resources can even be only mined by the goverment which conveniently can transfer the rights).

Low oil prices may render impossible petroleum found in difficult environments like the Arctic or far offshore in the oceans or found in difficult forms like tar sands.

CO2 also acts kind of like dishwashing liquid; it scours out oil lurking between grains of sand.

Similarly, Canada has been aggressive in funding research like Mercier's and carbon capture research on oil sands operations via national funds and a $ 2 billion money pot from Alberta, said the analyst.

She cited applications like providing power for metal mining or oil sands development where «temporary baseload, heavy - duty power» is needed, as ideal for the technology.

But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.

«Other options like rail or truck are not feasible for the transportation of large quantities,» said Elizabeth Shope, anti — tar sands advocate with environmental group the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a conference call with reporters, noting that such alternative transportation more than triples the cost of moving tar sands oil.

From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.

Add solid coconut oil to bowl and using a pastry cutter, cut the coconut oil into the dry ingredients until the mixture begins to form fine crumbs (it will look like wet sand).

Add the flour mixture and the remaining 3 tablespoons of canola oil, and mix on medium - low speed until the mixture looks like wet sand, about 1 minute.

Different mixed media painting techniques, using glue, string, card, wax, paper to manipulate and to create texture with acrylic paint Looking at famous artists like Jackson Pollock, Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, John Hoyland and Howard Hodgkin Resources: Acrylic paint, Sponges, sticks, large and small paintbrushes, credit card, string, glue, Punchinella, kebab sticks batik wax, sand, tissue paper, scrap paper and glue guns, Creating a number of different textures with acrylic paint and see what other mixed media layering one can achieve with chalk and oil pastel as well to layer over the acrylic paint.

«It was difficult to know what each corner would be like — sometimes sand on the racing line, sometimes grass, and a lot of oil coming off several cars.»

I wanted to bring alive everything I loved about my hometown area in Southern California since I was a kid: the sunsets, the palm trees, the mist on June mornings, the greenbelts, the way the bright - green ice plant meets the sand, the ocean - facing restaurants and how it always smells a little like suntan oil and open grills when you're walking down the sidewalk in a beach town.

The production firms like Suncor Energy (NYSE: SU) located in the oil sands are clear winners from the pipeline construction.

He lost a lot of money in stocks like Canadian oil sands and others and that's when he knew he'd run out of inventive ideas to keep his portfolio going on stocks.

Many of Dubuffet's paintings are created with oil paint, impastoed and thickened with materials like sand, tar and straw.

Stacked here like blocks of ice or stones, they conjure all manner of contradictory associations: walls, igloos, Donald Judd boxes, and more unlikely, Anselm Kiefer's massive acrylic, oil, shellac, and sand painting of a serpentine structure The Fertile Crescent (2009).

Tar Sands Environmental Destruction Not Worth It At the risk of sounding flippant, sounds like too little too late: I'll stand by the WWF's assessment that the economic and environmental costs of continuing to develop tar sands and oil shales — in energy speak «unconventional fuels» — are simply unthinkable.

It also makes some false solutions look a lot more appealing to the public, like liquid coal or deforestation diesel, while providing the incentive to use «unconventional oil» such as Canadian tar sands or Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil.

With regard to difficulty, some parallels with other inefficient ideas like shale oil (tar sands), biofuels (particularly from corn), and on the way - out fringe, the moon and mars.

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.

Developing just a little bit of the oil sands is like being a little bit pregnant.

This method of extracting petroleum leaves an unholy mess, even as conveyed by a libertarian writer like Ronald Bailey visiting the Alberta oil - sands mines on a junket paid for by oil companies.

Due to a legal technicality, ExxonMobil is not required to pay into a cleanup fund because tar sands oil is not regulated like conventional oil.

According to experts in the failure of oil and gas pipelines, there are a handful of factors that can contribute to a pipeline rupture, like the one on Exxon Mobil's Pegasus pipeline that spilled toxic diluted bitumen or dilbit from the Canadian tar sands into a Mayflower, Arkansas lake and subdivision.

According to a thirty - year - old law in the US, diluted bitumen coming from the Alberta tar sands is not classified as oil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport the corrosive substance across the US — with proposed pipelines like the Keystone XL — are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fuoil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport the corrosive substance across the US — with proposed pipelines like the Keystone XL — are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust FuOil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

Here's the tweet from @exxonmobil sent in response to critics who pointed out that, because of a major loophole that needs to be closed, bitumen is not considered crude oil, and therefore tar sands pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund.

bitumen is not considered crude oil, and therefore tar sands pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund

Five companies in this guide are listed in the latest report looking at who funds extreme fossil fuels, like tar sands, Arctic oil and coal mining: