Sentences with phrase «make tar sands»

Extended drought in the US West has made the water needed to make tar sands extraction work a very much more dear and expensive resource.

No thanx Sambo, I understand your position — better than you understand why it took high petro prices to make the tar sands a profitable proposition.

That still won't make the tar sands any more environmentally friendly.

Indeed, the market conditions and policies necessary to make the tar sands a cost - effective source of energy will almost certainly result in dangerous levels of global warming that will exceed two degrees Celsius, the internationally agreed upon limit that will prevent climate change from destroying the planet.

With a stroke of his pen, the president could almost (almost) make tar sands into a worthwhile economic proposition for investors.

In order to make the tar sands bitumen marketable, producers have to heat the thick sludge to 500 degrees, which requires plenty more energy.

The article traces the often unacknowledged federal R&D support and direct investment that made the tar sands / oil sands industry a reality, noting that «the clean energy sector now finds itself in a situation remarkably similar to where the oilsands project was 25 years ago.

Big Oil has made tar sands development a global enterprise and will do whatever it takes to get mining equipment in, and the oil out, to foreign markets.

This is what makes tar sands spills, such as those that have occurred in Mayflower, Arkansas and Kalamazoo River, Michigan, so difficult to clean and why there is such fierce opposition to transport pipelines, such as Keystone XL.

But the rising price of oil suddenly made the tar sands of Alberta economically attractive — and since, as NASA climatologist James Hansen pointed out in May, they contain as much as 240 gigatons of carbon (or almost half of the available space if we take the 565 limit seriously), that meant Canada's commitment to Kyoto was nonsense.

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In addition, unfettered tar sands plant construction drives up the price of building materials making other development prohibitively expensive.

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.

The State Department announced today that it will delay the decision - making process on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, citing the need for more clarity around the project's route.

The first potentially false claim made by Mr. Young was that, «if the tar sands plan goes through until the end, the industrial area will be the size of England.»

Refiners don't particularly want tar sands oil, which is tougher to make into usable transportation fuel, so it sells for about $ 20 to $ 30 less per barrel than crude from Texas or the Dakotas.

«In your discussions with the Canadian government, we encourage you to raise concerns over the environmental and social problems associated with tar sands production and make no exemption for the tar sands in any binational agreement addressing climate change» says the open letter.

Appel says a modified version of thermal depolymerization could be used to inject steam into underground tar - sand deposits and then refine them into light oils at the surface, making this abundant, difficult - to - access resource far more available.

With the slowdown, developers must improve efficiency to stay profitable, making changes that will both help the bottom line and begin to address some of the tough environmental problems associated with tar sands oil.

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.

Nathan says high prices have made it increasingly economically viable to extract more unconventional forms of oil, in particular the asphaltlike tar sands (also known as oil sand, or extremely heavy crude oil) plentiful in northern Alberta, Canada.

Exxon was also concerned about reports that synthetic oil made from coal, tar sands and oil shales could significantly boost CO2 emissions.

I took some heat myself for posting a You tube video, in the early days of the fire, suggesting the tar sands themselves make super fires more dangerous.

All the shale oil and tar sands are making up for declines in Alaska and older wells in the Gulf of Mexico.

February 6 — 12 Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film (16 mm film negative sanded with surfboard shaping tools, sex wax melted on, squirted, dripped, splashed, sprayed and rubbed with donuts, zinc oxide, cuervo, sunscreen, hydrogen peroxide, tecate, sand, tar, scraped with a shark's tooth, edits made by the surf and a seal while film floated in waves - surfing performed by Andy Perry, Makela Moore, Alanna Moore, Zach Moore, Johnny McCann — shot by Peter West — film negative sanded by Mariah Csepanyi, Andy Perry and Jwest) 2011, 8 minutes 15 seconds 16 mm film negative transferred to high - definition video, no sound Commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California and Thanks to Andy Perry

Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film (16 mm film negative sanded with surfboard shaping tools, sex wax melted on, squirted, dripped, splashed, sprayed and rubbed with donuts, zinc oxide, cuervo, sunscreen, hydrogen peroxide, tecate, sand, tar, scraped with a shark's tooth, edits made by the surf and a seal while film floated in waves - surfing performed by Andy Perry, Makela Moore, Alanna Moore, Zach Moore, Johnny McCann — shot by Peter West — film negative sanded by Mariah Csepanyi, Andy Perry and Jwest) 16 mm film negative transferred to high - definition, 8 minutes 15 seconds 2011 Image courtesy of the artist.

Oil shales and tar sands will also be deveolped and coal will be liquified to make synfuels.

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.

History is being made right now in Ottawa, Canada as hundreds of people from across North America are risking arrest on Parliament Hill during a mass civil disobedience sit - in to protest tar sands development.

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 others).

Yet when such people are elected to the executive branch and must make real world decisions, they end up approving expanded off - shore drilling and allowing continued mountaintop removal, long - wall coal mining, hydro - fracking, etc. — maybe even a tar sands pipeline.

Tar and shale sands can not scale in time and neither can coal for peak oil to make a large scale impact.

The Nature Climate change paper by Swart and Weaver about the impact of the oil / tar sands on climate made quite a splash in Canada.

If the Climate Action Partnership members are not sincere about personally making major reductions emissions now --- stopping tar sands development, coal plant developments, etc --- then it is they that are hoaxing us.

Tar sands can corrode pipelines more quickly, making it more dangerous to transport.

«Making the right decision on the tar sands is a good place to start.»

From 2010 to 2020, emissions from the tar sands are expected to more than double, making it Canada's fastest - growing source of greenhouse gas pollution.

«Although the [research] project appears to seek a sustainable approach,» Schwabe said, «this is done only to make a deeply problematic, highly environmentally damaging business a little less problematic in order to justify strengthening and expanding the tar sands industry.»

An overwhelming objection is that exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts... [I] f emissions from coal are phased out over the next few decades and if unconventional fossil fuels including tar sands are left in the ground, it is conceivable to stabilize earth's climate.

Unfortunately, the mainstream media and politicians on both sides of the aisle are parroting the hype, claiming — in Obama's case — that unconventional oil can play a key role in an «all of the above» energy strategy and — in Romney's — that increased production of tight oil and tar sands can make North America energy independent by the end of his second term.

State made several flawed assumptions in its environmental review, including 1) an unrealistically low cost for transporting tar sands by rail from Alberta to Texas, 2) an inaccurate estimate of tar sands production costs and 3) an unrealistic assumption that tar sands production costs will not increase with rising labor, material and energy prices.

ST. PAUL, MN — On July 3, a Minnesota judge made the historic decision to grant 13 young people legal status as an official stakeholder in the permitting case for Enbridge's controversial Line 3 tar sands pipeline.

By Anthony Swift Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Wednesday, March 06, 2013 Read this blog post on the originating site In its recently released draft environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring tar sands from Canada to the Gulf Coast for export, the State Department attempts to make...

Tar sands is expensive to extract and process — with breakeven prices approaching $ 100 per barrel — and cheap transportation is required to make new projects profitable.

... Children and families in the US have a right to know now before any decision to approve the Keystone tar sands pipeline is made how it would affect their health.»

These export terminals for LNG in Canada is also needed to increase the price of natural gas in Canada and thereby make the renewable energy option for tar sands more viable.

The enviros perceive Obama as making a concession to them, while the reality is that the bottleneck in the tar sands pipeline system is being actively relieved and the industry is getting what it really wanted as its top priority, which was to relieve the surplus oil at Cushing.

Nuclear heat can provide the energy needed to extract the bitumens from the tar sands and to provide steam to make hydrogen to upgrade the bitumen to pipeline standards.

This December, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will make a crucial decision to approve or reject the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline.

Figure 1 helps make clear why the tar sands and other unconventional fossil fuels ought not to be developed and burned.

Tar sands oil not only exceeds conventional petroleum, but the energy used in mining, processing, and transporting tar sands oil makes it slightly worse — in terms of CO2 produced per unit energy — than coTar sands oil not only exceeds conventional petroleum, but the energy used in mining, processing, and transporting tar sands oil makes it slightly worse — in terms of CO2 produced per unit energy — than cotar sands oil makes it slightly worse — in terms of CO2 produced per unit energy — than coal.