Sentences with phrase «moving tar sands»

It's not enough to say, «Moving tar sands from Canada to Texas will cause climate change.»

Based on the initial description of this product, it appears that it could alleviate many of the risks involved with moving tar sands oil by rail.

Information has continued to pile up confirming many of the concerns raised by NRDC and other environmental groups: pipelines moving tar sands are more likely to leak, leak detection systems are unlikely to detect tar sands spills when they happen, tar sands spills are significantly more damaging than conventional spills, and conventional spills response measures are inadequate for containing and cleaning tar sands spills.

That leaves Keystone XL as the only viable prospect for moving tar sands oil into the global market.

«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.

He claimed that reliance on railroads to move tar sands oil meant that less rail capacity was available to transport coal and other things.

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.

Not exact matches

And in the environmental impact statement, Pilgrim officials wrote: «While crude oil shipment downriver is a relatively recent phenomena on the Hudson River, the increasing production of crude in North America because of fracking, and Canadian tar sands, is likely to result in increasing demand to move the crude oil to coastal areas for shipment to refineries.

In a surprise move, the president also weighed in on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, planned to transport oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico — suggesting that it will go ahead only if it causes no increase in carbon emissions.

The tar - sands oil — essentially diluted bitumen — is more acidic than regular oil and contains more sediment and moves at higher pressures.

But it's important to understand that Canada is going to be moving forward with tar sands, regardless of what we do.

Kinder Morgan spent six years navigating the Canadian bureaucracy to win approval to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline to move crude from the tar sands of Alberta to ports on the Pacific Coast of British Columbia.

Landscapes will continue to suffer as we move to more tar sands, oil shales, etc..

The real goal of the pipeline is to move tar - sands - derived bitumen from the Midwest, where it is currently backed - up, to Gulf Coast refineries.

These groups have either already moved organizational money out of banks that finance DAPL and / or other tar sands pipelines, or are in the process of doing so.

«Folks made it known that Vermonters, and our friends from the Northeast, oppose the proposed tar sands pipeline, and that this project will face a concerted and stiff local resistance if and when big oil decides to try and move it forward,» said David Vandeusen, conservation organizer for the Vermont Sierra Club.

[Translate] Today, nearly six years after the fight over the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline moved into high gear, Donald Trump...

It's time for America's corporations to step up to the plate, say no to tar sands, and move beyond oil.

The [tar - sands] alternatives aren't perfect, but they move us in a direction that I like from a jobs - creation standpoint and from a national - security standpoint.

Oil and gas major ExxonMobil said new reserves in the Arctic and Canadian tar sands must be exploited, moves scientists deem incompatibe with tackling global warming.

«What the long term looks like [for tar sands] really depends on whether we move to address climate change or whether we adopt failure,» said Anthony Swift, director of the Canada project at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The pipeline will not be moving «average» oil, of course, but rather tar sands oil, which is especially dirty and carbon intensive.

«What the long term looks like [for tar sands] really depends on whether we move to address climate change or whether we adopt failure,» said

The Alberta tar sands is taking another hit as two major retailers — Whole Foods and Bed Bath & Beyond — announced on Wednesday that they are moving to avoid using the petroleum products sourced from the tar sands for transporting product, according to a ForestEthics press release.

This means it could be coal, oil shale, tar sands, nukes or renewables, and if you want to move into fantasy land, fusion.

But it's important to understand that Canada is going to be moving forward with tar sands, regardless of what we do.

Now that we do know, it's imperative that we move quickly to alternate forms of energy — and that we leave the tar sands in the ground.

Exactly what a «climate leadership position» looks like for the tar sands industry is beyond me at this point, but I am glad to see that the oil companies are not getting in the way of moving things forward.

Current alternatives to the Keystone XL for transporting tar sands oil are on a much smaller scale, in much earlier stages of development, and in many cases face such significant opposition that they are unlikely to move ahead in the next five to 10 years if at all.»

Indigenous leaders and supporters will meet at Kwekwecnewtxw — the Watch House and move towards Kinder Morgan's construction zone where many may choose to take action in opposition to the proposed tar sands pipeline and tanker project.

The other pipeline would move 193,000 barrels a day of condensate, which is used to dilute tar sands bitumen so it can flow through the pipelines, to Alberta.

Even planting in earlier clear - cuts did not move me like seeing what was happening on the tar sands.