Sentences with phrase «massive tar»

A new study has found that the air pollution from Alberta's massive tar sands operations is putting the health of downwind residents at risk by releasing unsafe levels of carcinogenic and toxic chemicals into the air.

In the wake of the massive tar sands protest at the White House, I spoke with the green leader about whether the day's events might sway Obama's decision on the Keystone XL.

For example, Earthjustice represents four U.S. tribes in an effort to block a massive tar sands pipeline in Canada that would put treaty fishing areas at risk of catastrophic oil spills.

Our scientists shine a spotlight on the pollution from tar sands and supply research that documents cancer - causing pollutants in the air around Alberta's massive tar sands pits.

New pipelines would mean massive tar sands expansion that is incompatible with a safe global climate.

For example, the victims of massive tar sands exploitation (immediate victims who are sick and dying, and having their food sources tainted) need advocates, and she has used her best abilities to do what she can.

Imperial Oil, a wholly owned subsidiary of Exxon Mobil hopes to use Montana as a conveyer belt for massive tar sands mining equipment manufactured in South Korea and headed to Alberta, Canada.

Not exact matches

A years - long scandal involving Tar Heels athletics and UNC academics has resulted in a massive document detailing a «shadow» curriculum in which more than 3,000 students were enrolled.

In the face of a court challenge from a broad coalition of environmental and community groups and massive community opposition, the DEC today halted Global Companies» proposed expansion of its massive Albany oil train facility to handle tar sands oil.

The massive supercharged V8 engine turns this Camaro into a tar - burning machine that still comes packed with luxury and convenience features.

The statement estimates, and then dismisses, the pipeline's massive carbon footprint and other environmental impacts, because, it asserts, the mining and burning of the tar sands is unstoppable.

There will also be a massive rally outside the White House put on by Tar Sands Action on Nov 6, one year from the election.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, fossil fuels are lethal for environmental ecosystems (in addition to causing massive landslides, oil spills, underground tar leaks, and all of that good stuff) and produce extremely lethal toxic air emissions, including methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide.

Earlier this year, more than 90 North American scientists sent a letter to President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry urging them to reject, once and for all, the Keystone XL pipeline, arguing it would exacerbate climate change by unlocking massive development of tar sands.

The massive pile comes from the Marathon Oil Company's refining of tar sands at its Detroit refinery, and it's been getting a lot of attention over the past few months.

And that will require Canadians to play a larger role in deciding whether a massive expansion of tar sands development is prudent.

Instead, world leaders have pandered and caved to the powerful fossil fuel lobby: rubber stamping massive carbon - intensive infrastructure, unlocking billions of tonnes of new carbon in hard - to - reach places like the deep offshore ocean, the arctic, or hard - to - extract resources like tar sands, and proceeded to design energy policy around scenarios incompatible with a safe global climate.

Brook Riley continued: «A 27 % energy savings target is incomprehensible at a time when Europe is facing energy insecurity and is considering dangerous alternatives like shale gas and tar sands, and giving massive subsidies to nuclear, to meet demand.»

We analyzed how much carbon tar sands oil produces and assessed the climate impact of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding that building it would unleash a massive expansion of tar sands development and cause a dramatic increase in carbon pollution.

A number of the involved firms — refineries, storage companies, etc — are in line to get massive tax breaks related to changes to their facilities to handle the tar sands.

Thank goodness environmental activists like Fred Felleman are fighting back, opposing plans for massive coal export facilities, seeking to block new LNG export terminals, and attempting to scuttle Keystone XL and TransMountain tar sands oil pipeline expansions.

Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest are invoking an unusual source of legal authority — treaties — to block massive coal, crude oil and tar sands development.

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

Canadian Environment Minster Jim Prentice fessed up to what experts have been saying all along: that carbon capture and storage (CSS) is close to useless for mitigating the massive emissions from the Alberta tar sands.

The tar sands in Canada are an environmental disaster in other ways, but the incremental emissions of greenhouse gases are small compared to the far greater threat of massive coal expansion in China, or potential fugitive emission of methane from fracking, or massive deforestation in Indonesia and Latin America, or any number of other major sources of greenhouse gases.

He promises to ask Trans - Canada to re-apply for its permit for the rejected Keystone Pipeline, which proposed to move tar sands oil in massive pipes through the Midwest down to the Gulf Coast, and he supports drilling off the Atlantic coast, which was halted by the Obama Administration earlier this year.

Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil was investing its massive $ 45 billion in earnings in maximizing extraction and processing of oil and gas, including the controversial use of hydrofracturing (fracking) to extract fuel from tar sands and the expansion of offshore oil drilling.

It's no coincidence that both the Chicago area BP refinery and the Superior Wisconsin Murphy refinery are planning massive expansions to work with Alberta Tar Sands extracted crude oil.

Word of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline — and of the massive protest that's gathering in D.C. a week from now to fight it — is beginning to spread beyond environmental and activist circles and into the

Despite efforts to use carbon capture and storage as a distraction, there's no getting around the massive environmental impact of Canada's tar sands: At least 5 times the carbon emissions as conventional oil, huge water pollution

From First Nations and allies in British Columbia standing up to the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline to civil society and frontline communities in Argentina demanding a different development pathway to avoid the dangerous exploitation of massive shale oil and gas reserves, the resistance is global.

(11/07/2012) Hours after President Obama's historic re-election, climate group 350.org announced a massive rally to apply pressure on the administration to reject the Keystone Pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Alberta to an international market.

Given the massive investments in pots and pans that tar sands development requires, I'm amazed that anyone would invest that much in a country that's about as stable as a table with two legs.

NLP and machine learning can be used in technology - assisted review (TAR, or predictive coding) in order to brush through massive data sets for e-discovery.