While it's true that Notley won with the Alberta Tory dynasty and other opposition parties crumbling all around her, the Alberta NDP platform for 2015 had blanched out many past pledges to slash university tuition fees, regulate the electricity network or tightly control the pace
of oil sands expansions.
She also noted that Oliver failed to mention that even his government's own reports from Environment Canada have said that Canada will not meet its climate - pollution targets because
of oil sands expansion.
Not exact matches
The Trans Mountain
expansion almost triples the capacity
of the existing pipeline, which is designed to carry crude from Canada's
oil sands to the West Coast.
Expansion of Alberta's
oil sands has become an international target for climate activists.
But when the B.C. government announced this week plans to bar increases to diluted bitumen (
oil sands crude) shipments while it launches a new panel study
of spill research, the group Stand.earth advised Kinder Morgan investors to call their brokers because this will delay or permanently thwart the company's federally approved Trans Mountain pipeline
expansion.
Big
Oil is also acutely aware that a major new pipeline project is a critical piece of its huge expansion plans for the oil san
Oil is also acutely aware that a major new pipeline project is a critical piece
of its huge
expansion plans for the
oil san
oil sands.
Having recently called out the federal government for failing to provide a justification for its decision to approve Shell's Jackpine mine
oil sands expansion project (an approach that serves no interest other than the government's, as even industry would stand to benefit from knowing why one project is justified while another, e.g. Taseko's original Prosperity mine, is not), it was reassuring to see that at least this Joint Review Panel (JRP) shares my understanding
of this obligation under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, SC 2012, c 19.
He discussed the impacts on climate change connected with the
expansion of the
oil sands and raised last summers» wildfires in BC as an example
of how climate change is impacting us now.
to support an
expansion of oil sand exports or the proposed Trans Mountain and Keystone XL pipelines.
McKay cites his own recent three - part investigative series for The Energy Mix as «an evidence - based argument that there is no credible business case to support an
expansion of oil sand exports or the proposed Trans Mountain and Keystone XL pipelines.
Last week, Bill McCaffrey, chief executive
of oil sands producer MEG Energy Corp., said his company is considering such exports as it becomes easier to move Canadian crude to Houston through
expansions of the pipeline network.
Marc's conservative estimate is that new
oil sands production associated with the Trans Mountain Pipeline
expansion (just the
expansion beyond the existing pipeline) would represent an additional 93 megatonnes
of global GHG emissions per year.
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 proposal is the latest in a series
of planned pipelines and
expansion projects as a flood
of crude from the
oil sands and the Bakken shale
oil field stretches existing networks.
Such options include the inevitable
expansion of Canada's own tar /
oil sands (Keith Kloor has nicely knitted several views
of this option), ever more coal production and the global push to tap greatly expanded reserves
of natural gas.
Nader said, «We do not need nuclear power... We have a far greater amount
of fossil fuels in this country than we're owning up to... the tar
sands...
oil out
of shale... methane in coal beds...» Sierra Club consultant Amory Lovins said, «Coal can fill the real gaps in our fuel economy with only a temporary and modest (less than twofold at peak)
expansion of mining.»
Scientists expressed concern that the
oil and gas regulations will fail to do anything meaningful on climate change given the federally - allowed
expansion of oil sands developments, and the long history
of broken promises on climate action.
This is a critical element
of the draft environmental review because while State determined that tar
sands is dirtier than conventional
oil, it concludes that Keystone XL would have little impact on the
expansion of tar
sands and therefore policymakers and the public needn't consider the impacts
of that
expansion.
The projected
expansion of the
oil sands industry will require too much water to sustain the Athabasca River system, especially with the added impact
of predicted climate warming, according to a new report published by the University
of... Read more →
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.
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Fracking has expanded to the majority
of the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara nations, (Ft. Berthold) and a new pipeline for the Bakken fracked
oil is proposed to go from North Dakota into Minnesota, adjacent to the Enbridge pipeline which is seeking
expansion from 440,000 barrels to 800,000 barrels per day
of dilbit, or tar
sands oil.
In addition, a major
expansion of Imperial
Oil's Kearl oil sands project recently came online in the midst of the down cycle, further depressing prices for tar sands o
Oil's Kearl
oil sands project recently came online in the midst of the down cycle, further depressing prices for tar sands o
oil sands project recently came online in the midst
of the down cycle, further depressing prices for tar
sands oiloil.
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.
Grand Chief Serge Simon
of the Mohawk Council
of Kanesatake said, «On behalf
of the Treaty Alliance Against Tar
Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call
of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to carry even more tar
sands oil out
of Canada.
She said that the aftereffects
of oil sands drilling that would come along with the
expansion of the pipeline would likely desecrate the freshwater Ogallala Aquifer near her homelands in Pine Ridge, S.D.
She said that the aftereffects
of oil sands drilling that would come along with the
expansion of the pipeline would likely desecrate the freshwater Ogallala Aquifer near her homelands in Pine Ridge, S.D. «It is with great honor that I come here today to ask President Obama to stand with us for Mother Earth against Father Greed,» Plume said.
Ezra Levant is a Canadian television and radio personality, conservative political activist, and author
of Ethical
Oil: The Case for Canada's
Oil Sands, the book that popularized the phrase «Ethical
Oil,» which is now being used by the conservative government in Canada as justification for the
expansion of the Athabasca tar
sands.
As a growing source
of carbon emissions, slowing the
expansion of oil sands is an important step.»
Amanda Starbuck, the Climate Program Director at Rainforest Action Network, put it this way: «Many big corporations that sell commodities far removed from
oil extraction are nonetheless enabling the nightmarish
expansion of the tar
sands by refusing to purge tar
sands oil from their fuel supply chains.
And the reason that the
oil and gas sector is increasing emissions so much is because
of the
expansion of the
oil sands.
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.
The increased capacity and revenues the pipeline will bring will encourage equity analysts and credit rating agencies to mark up
oil -
sands producers, reducing their cost
of capital and therefore encouraging further
expansion.
It's time to stop the
expansion of the
oil sands.»