Sentences with phrase «miles of oil sands»

He and his colleagues found that over the course of four months, 11,400 tons of particulate matter — including bitumen and cancer - causing polycyclic aromatic compounds — were deposited within 30 miles of oil sands upgrading facilities belonging to two of Canada's major oil sands development companies, Suncor and Syncrude.

A Pembina Institute study from 2009 estimated the costs to reclaim what was then 686 square miles of oil sands developments and 170 square miles of tailings ponds would run as high as $ 15 billion.

Not exact matches

Energy giant TransCanada originally proposed the Keystone XL pipeline to transport 800,000 barrels daily of tar sands oil through five states from Alberta, Canada, 1,700 miles to Gulf of Mexico refineries in Texas.

By linking Canadian fields to refiners in the Gulf Coast, the 1,200 - mile (1,900 - km) Keystone XL pipeline would be a boon to an energy patch where oil sands are abundant but that produce more carbon pollution than many other forms of crude.

In Canada, relatively shallow oil sand deposits lie beneath a 1,500 - square - mile region just north of Fort McMurray.

In the wake of the high - profile protests against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and 1,250 arrests, some of the world's best - known Nobel Peace Prize winners are lending their voices in opposition to the 1,700 mile project that would bring Canadian tar sands oil down to Texas.

The department allowed TransCanada, the company seeking permission to build the 1,700 - mile pipeline from the oil sands of northern Alberta to the Gulf Coast in Texas, to solicit and screen bids for the environmental study.

All the people who are active against the additional carbon release from the processing of oil sands, should be required to drive their propane or CNG fueled hydraulic hybrid automobiles at the most efficient speed for the miles traveled and to live in the smallest houses needed for shelter and eat the simplest food and never take aircraft trips. . .

Surmont is located approximately 63 kilometers (39 miles) southeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta, in the Athabasca oil sands region.

It occurred just 80 miles west of the largest inland oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the 1 - million barrel tar sands crude leak along the Kalamazoo River in 2010.

Despite the rapid growth of the oil sands industry, and plans to build or expand more than 10,000 miles of pipelines in the next few years, federal pipeline regulations don't distinguish between dilbit and conventional crude oil.

The author and campaigner hit national and international headlines earlier this year will his high - profile and vocal disapproval of the Keystone XL Pipeline, the $ 7billion, 1,700 mile oil pipeline planned to run from Canada's tar sands to Texas.

There are really only two recurrent arguments the GOP trots out to defend the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that the oil industry wants to build across a 1,700 mile stretch of middle America.

A Bloomberg report reveals that the 1,700 mile tar sands oil pipeline would likely have the effect of raising the cost of gasoline by $ 0.20 a gallon.

The gut - check issue for McKibben and his supporters — thousands of whom turned out for a mass demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17 — is the Keystone XL pipeline, a 3,400 - mile pipe proposed by oil infrastructure company TransCanada that will allow crude oil extracted from the tar sands of Alberta, in southern Canada, to be refined on the Gulf of Mexico.

VANCOUVER, Canada — U.S. opponents of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline should take take note: One of the greatest weaknesses of the proposed 1,980 mile - long pipeline from Canada's tar sand fields to refineries in Texas actually lies in British Columbia on Canada's west coast.

They want the Obama administration to reject a Canadian company's application to construct the $ 7 billion, 1,702 - mile pipeline, which would carry heavy crude from the oil sands mines of Alberta to refineries along the Gulf Coast.

Washington, DC — This morning, Senator Bernie Sanders (I - VT) added his voice to the growing opposition to the Keystone XL, a 1,700 mile pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

«When you have the development of oil sand deposits, there are vast landscapes that go on for miles that are barren and a lot of big lakes of toxic water that have been used in the process of extracting the oil,» said Jack Woodward, the lawyer representing them.

In 2013 I became involved with a newly formed group of Burnaby residents protesting a plan by Kinder Morgan, a Texas based oil company, to dramatically expand the export of diluted bitumen from the Alberta tar sands to oversees markets through a small marine terminal in Burrard Inlet, just miles from the City of Vancouver.