Sentences with phrase «oil sands production while»

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Many oil sands production facilities, while not directly harmed by wildfire, have been taken offline as companies evacuate

While the fire has not directly damaged major oil sands production facilities, it has precipitated major disruption to the industry as companies evacuate employees.

While Cenovus and Husky both billed their output slowdowns as temporary, the first - quarter hiccups foreshadow shrinking gains in oil - sands production.

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The result is what Marc Lee refers to as an «all of the above» policy — we have carbon pricing and various climate - related regulation, even while committing to significantly expanded oil sands production and promising new bitumen pipelines.

While the oil industry waits for the worldwide petroleum glut to decrease — something the International Energy Agency believes might occur by the end of the year — frack sand investors can take comfort in the knowledge that 70 %, 88 %, and 87 % of US Silica's, Hi - Crush Partners», and Emerge Energy's respective current and medium - term production is protected by highly profitable contracts.

And in the environmental impact statement, Pilgrim officials wrote: «While crude oil shipment downriver is a relatively recent phenomena on the Hudson River, the increasing production of crude in North America because of fracking, and Canadian tar sands, is likely to result in increasing demand to move the crude oil to coastal areas for shipment to refineries.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

In 2015, the legislature passed a moratorium intended to delay fracking while the state's Department of Natural Resources studied whether fracking — a method of oil and gas production that uses large amounts of chemical - and sand - laced water to break up shale gas below ground, releasing deposits of fossil fuels.

On that basis, the report concludes that while continued oil sands production will make it very hard for Canada to meet its national emission reduction targets — which again it's worth pointing out, are in line with those of the US and far far below what science says is needed to minimize the impacts of climate change — on a global basis «elimination of oil sands GHG emissions will not eliminate or substantially lessen the immense challenge facing the world to reduce GHG emissions.»