Sentences with phrase «of a tar sands operation»

After a recent bus and helicopter tour of a tar sands operation in Fort McMurray she had one word to describe what she saw: Mordor.

Right now, Congress is getting ready to vote on legislation to fast - track the Keystone XL pipeline — a project that would drive a rapid expansion of tar sands operations and put the lives of thousands of wolves at risk.

Not exact matches

Keith is one of the only financial reporters around who's actually visited Alberta's remote tar sands region to personally meet every major player in the booming Canadian oil operation.

Business Insider reporter Robert Johnson tried to get a tour of the Alberta tar, err, oil sands operations, but was denied.

Bloomberg reports smoke from the fire complex has reached the tar sands operations of SunCor, just north of Fort McMurray.

Plus the tar sands operations have gigantic tailings and wastewater ponds which are loaded with various types of petrochemicals.

My review of the Fort McMurray fires, asking what happens if they burn the tar sands operations — follows that.

The first item should be a ban on any imports of Canadian tar sand oil to the U.S., plus pressure on Canada to shut down those operations.

We empower local communities to protect themselves from reckless fracking operations, and we partner with leading scientists, financial analysts, and First Nations to stop the expansion of dirty tar sands oil development.

Booming tar sands operations in Canada are destroying wildlife habitat at an increasing pace — pushing woodland caribou to the brink of extinction and prompting plans to poison and shoot thousands of wolves in a cruel effort to «protect» the caribou.

The groups are calling on the banks to cut business ties with Enbridge Inc. until it stops expanding tar sands operations, one of the most destructive fossil fuels on the planet.

Last week, the pipes from Suncor's operations froze and then burst, spilling 2,200 barrels of toxic tar sands waste into the Athabasca River for 10 hours.

** By the way, a small research company has recently demonstrated a new technology to effectively remove 98.8 % of the tar / oil from tailling ponds while supply clean hot water for adjacent tar sand operations.

Or at least stop enough of them to cause tar sands operators to think twice about continuing their tar sands operations.

In addition to greenhouse gases, tar sands operations release large volumes of acid rain - causing sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the environment.

A few years back I wrote about plans for the Murphy Oil Refinery in northeastern Wisconsin to expand operations 700 %, to take advantage of tar sands oil piped in from Canada.

Furthermore, Utah has approved preliminary plans to start a tar sands project of its own, which would be the first of its kind in the US — and would likely be as dangerous to the environment as our northern neighbor's infamous operation.

Check out this video clip of Cree Elder Celina Harpe, who lives in a Cree community about 40 km from Suncor and Syncrude tar sands operations.

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.

Whilst this overall figure is grabbing all the headlines, buried deep in Shell analysts presentation is the fact that Shell's new jewel in the crown — its carbon intensive tar sands operations — made a loss in the first quarter of 2009, compared to a profit of $ 249 million in the same quarter last year.

$ 5.9 million means a lot more to (relatively) small solar and wind operations than it does to the likes of the tar sands giants.

And Canada's leaders» reliance on tar sands to drive the economy may be one of the biggest economic miscalculations of our time, as Canadian tar sands operations are being hammered by plummeting oil prices.

In an example of why tar sands companies» efforts to focus on ways to reduce the carbon intensity of their operations misses some of the equally bad, and more immediate, environmental problems with tar sands extraction, it