Sentences with phrase «oil sands development»

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

The protests are not going to stop oil sands development.

Some commentators on the Keystone decision have noted that, at sub - $ 50 oil, the prospects for new oil sands development are slim, pipeline or not.

Bouchard detailed the well documented environmental problems associated with oil sands development: Destruction of the boreal forest ecosystem; potential damage to the Athabasca watershed; increased release of greenhouse gases; carbon intensity of oil sands production; the creation of toxic tailing ponds.

Former Finance Minister Ted Morton is moving into the Energy Minister's office, an area where he will be comfortable defending the province's record on oil sands development.

And Luc Bouchard, the Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of St. Paul, Alberta (which includes oil sands development areas), is doing his part to make the moral case for stopping any further development: In a letter to his parishioners entitled The Integrity of Creation and the Athabasca Oil Sands, Bouchard says that, as currently developed, oil sands projects «can not be morally justified.»

Two regulations that could turn me to support oil sands development would be that 1) all development is done in - situ and 2) that all extraction energy is derived from renewable energy such as wind power or hydropower.

Yesterday, the Pembina Institute and Equiterre released a report entitled Booms, busts, and bitumen: The economic implications of Canadian oil sands development.

Much of the coverage and political reaction seemed to spin the Swart and Weaver work into some sort of vindication of oil sands development when they are clearly on record opposing expanded development.

In fact, U.S. employment supported by oil sands development could grow to a peak of 600,000 jobs in 2035, according to one scenario in a new report from the Canadian Energy Research Institute.

The Alberta oil sands development is already the largest source of new greenhouse gases in Canada.

Sources of air contaminant emissions from oil sands developments include industrial smokestacks, tailings ponds, transportation, and dust from mining operations.

In fact, one study has estimated that greater oil sands development as a whole could support 600,000 U.S. jobs in 2035.

If you evaluate Energy East against an alternative scenario where no other pipelines out of Alberta are ever built and no existing pipes are expanded, you could expect a marginal impact on future oil sands development.

The report does envision scenarios in which oil sands development is curbed by a combination of lower oil prices and a lack of pipeline capacity.

According to the Pembina Institute, a Canadian non-profit think tank that advances clean energy solutions, «95 % of woodland caribou habitat in northeastern Alberta is to be lost in order to promote oil sands development.»

• Oil sands development associated with the Keystone XL could support 117,000 new U.S. jobs by 2035, according to the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI).

Executive director Ed Whittingham lambasted the government's «five - year track record of failing to meaningfully tackle greenhouse gas pollution and avoiding federal responsibility for oil sands development.»

The Alberta government's revision of the Mine Financial Security Program (MFSP) continues down a wrong - headed path where the province is willing to take on environmental risk to enable oil sands development.

The shine has come off the oil sands, as more investors have started to question whether oil sands development is really a sure thing, particularly at the speed projected by bullish petro - boosters.

So to avoid hypocrisy, any critic of wholesale oil sands development (i.e., those who think the oil sands should not be developed at all) should be able to demonstrate that they themselves have taken steps to reduce their own oil consumption.

So, while a boycott — whether of tourism or of oil sands products — might be, in and of itself, ineffectual in halting oil sands development, it may still contribute to a more challenging business case for future oil sands projects.

In this case, it's hard to say definitively yes because Young used the term industrial area, but he clearly equated oil sands development with the mining projects located north of Fort McMurray and featured in the movie Petropolis.

Rarely recalled, though, is the wide - eyed way Harper described oil sands development to the Brits that day, calling it «an enterprise of epic proportions, akin to the building of the pyramids or China's Great Wall.»

She cited applications like providing power for metal mining or oil sands development where «temporary baseload, heavy - duty power» is needed, as ideal for the technology.

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.

Slash oil demand and oil sands development goes away; keep oil demand on its current trajectory and we've got huge climate problems regardless of whether Keystone XL is approved.

«I think it reflects a growing recognition that Canada has mismanaged oil sands development,» Simon Dyer told SolveClimate News.

(Reuters)- Exxon Mobil on Sunday continued cleanup of a pipeline spill that spewed thousands of barrels of heavy Canadian crude in Arkansas as opponents of oil sands development latched on to the incident to attack plans to build the Keystone XL line.

Supporters of Keystone XL and oil sands development say the vast Canadian reserves can help drive down fuel costs in the United States.

Summary of the current oil sands developments (mining and in - situ) and associated land use changes in the Fort McMurray region, highlighting some of the challenges the integrated monitoring design addresses.

IHS CERA's new environmental assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline and pipeline - related oil sands development sends a pretty clear message to President Obama as he decides whether to approve the full project's construction: There's not a climate rationale for rejecting the pipeline — and along with it, tens of thousands of U.S. jobs, economic uplift and greater energy security.

Both CAPP and Conference Board studies are spun to make the benefits of oil sands developments appear to be more evenly widespread throughout Canada than they are.

The proposed Scotford Upgrader 2 will be constructed in four phases and process Shell's share of future Athabasca minable bitumen production as well as bitumen from the company's in situ oil sands developments.

Despite environmentalists» campaign to end oil sands development, crude from Alberta will be developed with or without the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, says Gary Doer, Canada's ambassador to the U.S..

-LSB-...] assertion that oil sands development amounts to a climate «game over.»

If we're serious about oil sands development — and IHS» report strongly suggests Americans should be — then we should quit politicking to death the single biggest infrastructure project at hand that would facilitate oil sands transportation to the U.S.

When the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, a non-partisan group, explains that low taxes and low royalties have driven rapid oil sands development, Canadian taxpayers should pay full attention.

Anyone who's been closely following the organized lobby against Canada's ethical oil sands knows that many of the ENGOs (Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations) here in Canada that have been attacking oil sands development are really front groups for big American trusts.

Canada has great plans for controlling greenhouse gases, except of course where it might hurt oil sands development in Alberta.