Sentences with phrase «of the oil sands»

The program is designed to provide an improved understanding of the long - term cumulative effects of oil sands development.

The reason greater depths are not needed is because geothermal in the context of oil sands production isn't necessarily for power generation, which requires high temperatures.

The current sampling approaches are poorly designed for the purposes of providing an integrated understanding of the impacts of the oil sands industry on the aquatic environment, according to the governments.

And the reason that the oil and gas sector is increasing emissions so much is because of the expansion of the oil sands.

But this one consideration — the damages associated with the additional carbon emissions of oil sands oil — is effectively accomplished by denying the pipeline application.

You're right, of course, that the decision - makers already know about the environmental cost of the oil sands (hence, the «sacrifice zoning» of past strategies).

The company says it is working to ease the pain of toll increases, but it argues that the line is needed as a result of oil sands growth.

Indeed, just ask the oil industry itself how important new pipeline connections are to not only increasing production, but also the very commercial viability of the oil sands resource.

A new finding comes amid a debate about the carbon footprint of the oil sands generally.

«The results of this study are one piece of the puzzle to understand the overall environmental and climate impacts of the oil sands operations,» he said.

The future of the oil sands lies with the growth of oil demand in Asian markets, not in American ones.

Overview of oil sands production (mining) process.

The proposed future development of the oil sands constitutes a serious moral problem.

Counsel for an Owner of an oil sands project providing advice on the settlement of several multi-million dollar claims.

This study examines the impacts of oil sands operations (existing and future) limited by pipeline export capacity.

Northern Gateway's West line, 36 inches in diameter, would transport an average of 525,000 barrels of oil sands crude per day to Kitimat.

For Canada's part, hydrogen could play a critical role in the future development of oil sands in a climate - responsible manner.

Canada — in the broadest collective sense, in whatever way we are all one — is as fully dug in on the production of oil sands crude as it has been in any of its resource projects.

The pipe would send hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil sands bitumen from Edmonton to the port of Vancouver each day — this at a moment when oil sands production and the pipelines that move it have become the proxy for a debate about climate change and the fossil fuel industries not just across Canada but worldwide.

The railroads are already gearing up big - time to handle oil out of the oil sands if a pipeline doesn't go thru.

«When you have the development of oil sand deposits, there are vast landscapes that go on for miles that are barren and a lot of big lakes of toxic water that have been used in the process of extracting the oil,» said Jack Woodward, the lawyer representing them.

-- One pipeline would carry up to 525,000 barrels a day of oil sands products west to Kitimat for export.

The economic benefits of oil sands development, while considerable, are unevenly distributed across the country, making interprovincial tensions understandable.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will then have to determine whether the construction of the $ 6 - billion (U.S.) pipeline - which would deliver 700,000 barrels per day of oil sands crude to the massive Gulf Coast refining hub - is in the U.S. national interest.

Above is what they say on their website, but in interview in the National Post, the new head of the oil sands producers» lobby Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers sings a different tune.

However, it is an underappreciated point that most of any pipeline dividend would flow directly to foreign shareholders, who own 76.8 per cent of oil sands companies on a market cap weighted basis, according to Bloomberg's Shareholdings Database (note: the actual foreign shareholdings may be slightly lower due to some peculiarities in Bloomberg's methodology).

Tailings A watery by - product of oil sands processing, containing traces of oil and a host of other pollutants.

If I take Keystone XL out of the mix, in my toy model, I haven't impacted the cost of the marginal barrel of oil sands because I haven't changed the cost of a barrel shipped by rail, I've simply reduced the profit on the barrels which would be shipped via KXL by forcing them to be shipped to market in a more expensive way.

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 →

The book examines the environmental effects of oil sands mining in northern Alberta.

Despite the rapid growth of the oil sands industry, and plans to build or expand more than 10,000 miles of pipelines in the next few years, federal pipeline regulations don't distinguish between dilbit and conventional crude oil.

Share prices of oil sands players are down by roughly half since the recession and have shown few signs of perking up for the last several years running.

Under the new guidelines, the acquisition of oil sands companies by foreign state - owned enterprises will only be found to constitute a new benefit for Canada in «exceptional circumstances.»

So, consider a simple example where I have two oil sands routes — pipeline to the Gulf or rail to the Gulf — at costs of $ 7.50 per barrel and $ 15 per barrel respectively, and also different types of oil sands production at increasing costs per barrel.

He and his colleagues found that over the course of four months, 11,400 tons of particulate matter — including bitumen and cancer - causing polycyclic aromatic compounds — were deposited within 30 miles of oil sands upgrading facilities belonging to two of Canada's major oil sands development companies, Suncor and Syncrude.

«In light of growing trends, and following the decisions made today, the government of Canada has determined that foreign state control of oil sands development has reached the point at which further such foreign state control would not be of net benefit to Canada,» Harper said.

It will make the cost of oil sands extraction higher (than using natural gas at only 2 USD per million BTU) but I believe it will still be profitable at 100 USD a barrel.

to support an expansion of oil sand exports or the proposed Trans Mountain and Keystone XL pipelines.

The recession «has given the oil sands industry a chance to step back and breathe,» says David McColl, head of oil sands studies at the Canadian Energy Research Institute, a nonprofit whose membership includes government departments, the University of Calgary, and energy companies.

«What was really noteworthy was the call for a full assessment of the climate and energy implications of oil sands development, Dyer of Pembina said, «and tying those two discussions together.»

Canadian producers are now locked into U.S. Midwest and Ontario markets, which have limited capacity to process additional volumes of oil sands bitumen.