Sentences with phrase «more oilsands production»
Alberta could cut its greenhouse gas emissions almost by half by shutting down its coal - fired power plants, a move that would make room for more oilsands production.
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Yet as production there declines — Saudi Arabia is pumping out its oil at more than four times the rate of the oilsands, Talwani noted in a New York Times op - ed titled, «Canada: the next oil superpower?»
After all, prior to the Great Recession, Alberta's industrial heartland looked poised to become an upgrading mecca, with new refinery projects expected to boost local production of oilsands crude by more than half a million barrels a day.
ARC Energy Research Institute forecasts $ 30 billion will be spent in conventional and tight oil and gas formations in Canada this year, which is more than twice the $ 12 billion in investment projected to go into the oilsands, but still well below the peak of $ 46 billion spent in Canadian conventional oil and gas production in 2014.