Sentences with phrase «oil sands projects between»

According to Carbon Tracker, the roughly $ 400 billion committed to Alberta oil sands projects between now and 2025 represent more than a third of high - risk projects expected to become stranded assets in a 2 - degree world.

Not exact matches

The interview is a bit of pure madness, but it brings up an interesting point about the financial media's continued inability to understand the difference between a trend and three or four deals involving oil sand projects and how assets factor into individual balance sheets.

Probably the most discussed aspect of the NGP Report (see this excellent discussion on CBC's The 180 beginning at around the seven minute mark) is the JRP's treatment (or lack thereof) of «upstream» greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and specifically the apparent asymmetry between the JRP's decision to consider the need to open markets for projected increases in oil production — the vast majority of which would uncontrovertibly be from the oil sands — but not the GHGs associated with this projected growth.

We did not consider that there was a sufficiently direct connection between the project and any particular existing or proposed oil sands development or other oil production activities to warrant consideration of the effects of these activities.

In fact, absent new measures Environment Canada's 2014 emissions trends report projected that oil sands emissions would drive increased emissions from the oil and gas sector of 45 Mt CO2e (to a total of 204 MtCO2e) between 2005 and 2020, offsetting the emission reductions made in other sectors.

But the oil industry is pushing as hard as ever for their pet project, and we need to show the president the connection between decisions to import tar sands and a future full of Sandys.

Even the U.S. State Department recognized oil sands innovation in its evaluation of the Keystone XL pipeline project: «Oil sands mining projects have reduced greenhouse gas emissions intensity by an average of 39 percent between 1990 and 2008 and are working toward further reductions,» the final Environmental Impact Statement concludoil sands innovation in its evaluation of the Keystone XL pipeline project: «Oil sands mining projects have reduced greenhouse gas emissions intensity by an average of 39 percent between 1990 and 2008 and are working toward further reductions,» the final Environmental Impact Statement concludOil sands mining projects have reduced greenhouse gas emissions intensity by an average of 39 percent between 1990 and 2008 and are working toward further reductions,» the final Environmental Impact Statement concluded.