Sentences with phrase «of tar sands»

All things considered, the energy you can get from burning a barrel of tar sands oil only barely exceeds the energy required to produce it.

Such a rapid expansion of tar sands development is part of a global energy scenario that would push average global temperatures as high as six degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

To produce one barrel of tar sands oil requires about three barrels of water.

This panel of scientists, engineers and experts - have any of them actually seen what a million gallons of tar sands does to a river, to a community?

While specific numbers are hotly debated by tar sands proponents, everyone agrees the climate impacts of tar sands oil are greater than conventional oil.

One of the first things to say is the oil is coming out of the tar sands.

Over the course of a few years, the price of oil would drop to $ 25, which is the cost of tar sand oil.

Another issue was about the impact of tar sands on water.

We've covered the environmental risks of tar sands many times.

This is a win for the movement — and possibly the end of this tar sands pipeline.

First you need to understand a bit about the economics of tar sands oil — a cheap, off - brand version of conventional crude.

$ 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.

The crash of tar sands and coal stocks is just the beginning.

Finally a specific example: How does innovation solve the problem of tar sands oil?

Or is it better to limit the expansion of the tar sands and focus on developing a clean energy future?

Are you committed to stopping the expansion of pipelines and the development of the tar sands?

Be honest about the thousands of treaty rights violations the government is being sued for because of the impacts of tar sands development.

The oil was from Canada which has become a top exporter of crude to the United States because of their exploitation of the tar sands in Alberta.

Enbridge dumped over 1 Million gallons of tar sand crude into Michigan's Kalamazoo River, polluting and closing the waterway to fishing and swimming for 6 months.

The more immediate problem is the upswing of production of the tar sands in Alberta, Canada.

A barrel of tar sands bitumen regularly sells for about $ 70.

Described as «the biggest carbon bomb on the planet» by leading climate change scientist James Hansen the extraction of tar sands causes pollution and deforestation, kills wildlife and threatens indigenous Canadian communities.

An even more disturbing report by the Alberta Caribou Committee found that the continued expansion of the tar sands industry «will cause the complete collapse of caribou populations living in the Boreal forest.»

Local environmental groups oppose the transport of tar sands crude, which is extremely difficult to clean up, and which they say poses a risk to the Hudson River, Lake Champlain and other areas where railroad tracks run along the shoreline.

This decision has not been backed up by any analysis and fails to take into account the potential flood of tar sands into Europe as well as the resulting emissions increase.

Due to failed attempts by the European Union to discourage the use of tar sands with its Fuel Quality Directive, tar sands continue to arrive in Europe, with almost three quarters of Europe's oil refineries tar - sands - ready.

The US president could be poised to approve the doubling of imports of tar sands oil, one of the filthiest fuels on Earth

Last month Exxon announced it could be forced to wipe billions of barrels of tar sands reserves from its books if oil prices don't rebound before the end of the year.

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.

Both the Tsleil - Waututh and the Squamish recently signed the Save the Fraser Declaration, joining over 100 other First Nations Chiefs banning the export of tar sands oil through their territories.

Last week's 210,000 gallon spill of tar sands from the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota wasn't supposed to factor into the Nebraska commission's decision on the Keystone XL permit.

This legacy of broken promises to establish strict measures to address the growing and negative impacts on the water resources of the tar sands region, Droitsch maintains, deserves more attention and scrutiny particularly as the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is being reviewed by the U.S. State Department.

Much of the tar sands bitumen is extracted through surface mining that removes the «overburden» (i.e., boreal forest ecosystems) and tar sand from large areas to a depth up to 100 m, with ecological impacts downstream and in the mined area [154].

In the report, we calculate the amount of tar sands bitumen and associated carbon dioxide kept in the ground via the cancellation of these projects (0.2 billion tonnes to 2030 with 2.6 billion tonnes more over the potential lifetime of the projects).

A 22 - foot gash in the 65 - year - old pipeline spewed over 500,000 gallons of tar sands dilbit through the streets of Mayflower, AR.

Each participated because they fear that the construction of the tar sands pipeline will destroy their homes and communities, some of them quite literally — TransCanada, the company behind Keystone, has instituted eminent domain to seize citizens» homes.

The break - even price of tar sands oil is around $ 100 per barrel if transported by rail, according to Anthony Swift, a staff attorney at NRDC (which publishes

Meanwhile, the thirst for oil drives the mining of tar sands in Alberta and the flooding of old wells with steam or CO2 in California and Texas.

Such a reduction is more than 10 times as great as the carbon content of tar sands oil carried by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline (830,000 barrels / day)[242].

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.

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This was first brought to light by Oil Change International (and soon echoed by Ryan Koronowski on Climate Progress and then by Carol Linnitt on DeSmog Canada), all of whom explained the bizarre technicality that exempts dilbit (or diluted bitumen, the transportable form of tar sands crude) from the taxes that fund the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

The Mayflower - Pegasus spill now brings into focus, perhaps for the first time, the increasingly popular industry practice of reversing and repurposing existing pipelines in order to transport booming supplies of heavy crude out of the tar sands region north of the border.

Considering even the most efficient Canadian producers of tar sands bitumen need to get at least $ 60 a barrel, somebody somewhere is losing big money.