Sentences with phrase «on oil sands development»

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.

Not exact matches

The Panel excluded any discussion of the environmental impacts of oil sands development, although they did allow the consideration of increased oil prices generated by the pipeline on the taxes and royalties associated with forecast future oil sands production.

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

It adds that «approval or denial of the proposed project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area.»

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.

In March of 2008 the Canadian Boreal Initiative, the Pembina Institute and the Alberta Research Council published a report recommending the use of offsets in the oil sands region of Alberta as one tool to control the terrestrial impacts of oil sands development, including the impact on caribou.

Seeing an opportunity to offset some of the emissions from its oil - sands development, the province of Alberta committed Can $ 2 billion (US$ 2.1 billion) to sequestration in 2008 and is now working out agreements with commercial partners on four projects.

Regarding Keystone, I myself think it is clear that Obama should say no to Keystone, because it is something in his power to do, which would have some effect on retarding development of the tar sands (despite what the flawed State Department EIS [Environmental Impact Statement] said), and because we really wouldn't get any significant benefit from saying yes; no real oil security, few permanent jobs, and most of the money goes to Canada and to refiners in free - trade zones.

An estimated $ 90 billion in development contracts were canceled or put on hold, bringing the oil sands industry to a crossroads.

Aerosols from the production of heavy oil is a growing climate and pollution concern because new tar sands developments are on the drawing board in Venezuela, Utah and elsewhere, the study says.

From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

Based on information and analysis about the North American crude transport infrastructure (particularly the proven ability of rail to transport substantial quantities of crude oil profitably under current market conditions, and to add capacity relatively rapidly) and the global crude oil market, the draft Supplemental EIS concludes that approval or denial of the proposed Project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area.

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.

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.

Scientists expressed concern that the oil and gas regulations will fail to do anything meaningful on climate change given the federally - allowed expansion of oil sands developments, and the long history of broken promises on climate action.

Environmentalists argue that the U.S. president needs to take a stand against further development of tar sands oil, which is more carbon - intensive than conventional crude oil, and will put the world on what they call an unsustainable energy path.

(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.

It was the first commercial development on the Athabasca oil sands, although small, earlier projects like that at Bitumount also played a role in development.

Hughes based his calculations on the 25.6 billion barrels of Canadian tar sands oil that are currently under active development.

Water monitoring will be done through a comprehensive and integrated approach that quantifies and assesses the sources, transport, loadings, fate, and types of oil sands contaminants in the Athabasca River system and effects on key aquatic ecosystem components (both within the oil sands development area and in downstream receiving environments) that are measures of ecosystem health and integrity (fish, invertebrates).

On the contrary, Figure 1 is a conservative estimate of potential emissions from tar sands because: the economically extractable amount grows with technology development and oil price; the total tar sands resource is larger than the known resource, possibly much larger; extraction of tar sands oil uses conventional oil and gas, which will show up as additions to the purple bars in Figure 1; development of tar sands will destroy overlying forest and prairie ecology, emitting biospheric CO2 to the atmosphere.

On Thursday, June 16, API hosted bloggers for a conference call to discuss the economic benefits of oil sands development and the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Oil sands development is having severe negative effects on the health of communities in Alberta, in particular the traditional stewards of the lands, the first nations of northern Alberta.

Having grown up in the oil sands region, she witnessed the impacts of oil sands development on her Nation's people, culture, and land.

Of course, the development of new oil sands projects depends on a recovery in the world oil price.

It ignores the pipeline's significant risk for toxic spills, ignores its catastrophic impacts on our climate, and ignores the clear consensus among financial analysts and oil executives who agree Keystone XL will make the difference in tar sands development.»

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

The government will increase its royalty share from oil sands development by introducing price - sensitive formulas both pre - and post-payout, rather than implementing an industry - wide tax on oil sands production.

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.

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.

Withdrawing plans to allow development of oil shale and tar sands on 800,000 acres of federal public lands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

«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.

Promoters of the pipeline were overjoyed; they could now switch their argument from claiming that the pipeline was an essential element in developing the oil sands to one in which the pipeline would make negligible difference to the development of the oil sands and therefore have little or no effect on climate change.

Weaver argues that the climate effects of oil sands development will have only a small effect on global temperatures and that the potential of coal and gas consumption to contribute to serious climate change is much greater.

Current alternatives to the Keystone XL for transporting tar sands oil are on a much smaller scale, in much earlier stages of development, and in many cases face such significant opposition that they are unlikely to move ahead in the next five to 10 years if at all.»

This may be due more to the nature of the oil sands development contaminants vs those found in the other rivers??? I'm guessing O&G contaminants which tend to be nasty carcinogens amongst other things... I have to read if the evaluations of what constitutes poor or good water quality what it is based on (which contaminants etc.)... I will look at your details... Any water pro's out there that can put the details above into context?

«New Canadian oil - sands development is increasingly economically questionable without the additional export capacity that pipelines such as Keystone XL would bring», says Mark Lewis, external research advisor to a report from Carbon Tracker, a think - tank focused on the investment risks posed by excessive fossil fuel extraction.

The mandate of the joint review panel ensured that it focused on risks which can be mitigated without harming the pipeline or the prospect of future of oil sands development while ignoring the larger risks that can't be so easily mitigated.