Sentences with phrase «on tar sand»

However, reducing the demand for fossil fuels on the other hand would lower the price of oil and put a cap on tar sand production.

Oil prices at a five - year low should be a wake - up call for Canada to abandon an economic strategy based strictly on tar sands / oil sands...

This time it means closing coal plants, stopping fracking, placing tariffs on tar sands oil, and permitting new fossil fuel plants only after all externalities are accounted for.

Tar sands are the turning point The article is pretty balanced in showing the many sides of the issue: jobs are on the line; the future of communities dependent on the tar sands industry, such as Fort McMurray, would be left in limbo.

But it is unlikely we will do significantly more to slash oil demand if we deepen our dependence on tar sands by building the Keystone XL pipeline.

In a smart recap of the controversy over tar sands oil, Maddow uses the Mayflower oil spill as a lead - in to a discussion on the tar sands oil spill on the Kalamazoo River oil spill, which has become the most expensive oil spill in US history with cleanup costs surpassing $ 765 million dollars.

«Making the right decision on the tar sands is a good place to start.»

The scientists — more than a quarter of whom are from the United States — issued a declaration of «10 Reasons for a Moratorium» on tar sands expansion and related projects such as the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

Levant himself coined the term «ethical oil» in 2009 after being involved in a panel on tar sands oil.

The State Department argued that Keystone XL would have little effect on tar sands production because rail could provide an equally feasible and economic transportation option for tar sands.

Expansion depends on tar sands being able to reach the high prices of overseas markets.

Canadians are not dying to work on the tar sands project, it is mainly for the 1 % who are taking environment and people for granted and are using propaganda to convince the 99 % that they are doing good for the society.

Amid this atmosphere, Harper has called a federal election and the country's economic downturn has helped thrust the reliance on tar sands oil into the debate.

«We push president Obama to do the right thing, especially on tar sands.

This would have a real effect on tar sands development as an MIT study points out that they are vulnerable to climate / energy policies aimed at reducing emissions.

Like the last such report, it found that approving a 800,000 barrel - a-day fuse to one of the planet's biggest carbon bombs was «unlikely to have a substantial impact» on the tar sands or the climate.

The report highlights how Ontario can save billions on oil and create jobs by investing in urban infill, transit, vehicle efficiency and low carbon fuels, and avoid dependency on tar sands oil.

«The IRS has classified tar sands as different from conventional oil, and thus the tax levied to fill the liability trust fund is not levied on tar sands crude.

InsideClimate News also contacted three pipeline companies (TransCanada, Enbridge and Kinder Morgan), three refineries that process tar sands crude (Valero, Suncor Energy U.S.A. and BP Whiting), and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) to ask about possible taxes on tar sands imports.

The only independent study conducted on the tar sands pipeline job creation prospects was carried out by Cornell Univeristy — and they found only 500-1400 jobs would be generated by the project, and that most would be temporary.

More on the tar sands pipeline State Dept Stays Quiet on Tar Sands Communication with Oil Lobbyist, Former Clinton Aide Wikileaks Reveals Hushed Concern Over Tar Sands Oil in US State Dept. Canadian Official Threatens Obama and Clinton With Cutting Off Tar Sands Oil Young Climate Activists Call On Clinton to Stop Tar Sands Pipeline 25 U.S. Mayors Speak Out Against Tar Sands Pipeline

More on the tar sands pipeline State Dept Stays Quiet on Tar Sands Communication with Oil Lobbyist, Former Clinton Aide Wikileaks Reveals Hushed Concern Over Tar Sands Oil in US State Dept. Canadian Official Threatens Obama and Clinton With Cutting Off Tar Sands Oil Young Climate Activists Call On Clinton to Stop Tar Sands Pipeline

If you read my most recent article on tar sands, you're well aware of the environmental damage associated with tar sands production.

, A North American overview, Andrew Nikiforuk on Canada's Highway to Hell and Joe Romm on the tar sands — Canada's version of liquid coal

They'll still be working hard on tar sands but expanding their work to take on issues like fracking, and systematic change like ending fossil fuel subsidies and attacking the idea that corporations are people.

And Canada's leaders» reliance on tar sands to drive the economy may be one of the biggest economic miscalculations of our time, as Canadian tar sands operations are being hammered by plummeting oil prices.

(He is the brother of Arthur Kent, the «Scud Stud» of the 1991 gulf war) His pitch on the tar sands: it's not dirty oil, it's ethical oil.

This research «clearly demonstrates that oilsands extraction will continue to place significant demands on Alberta's environment,» said Erin Flanagan, an expert on tar sands and water issues for

This research «clearly demonstrates that oilsands extraction will continue to place significant demands on Alberta's environment,» said Erin Flanagan, an expert on tar sands and water issues for the Pembina Institute.

Just to give you an impression: we lived on the tar sands facility — we were planting for Syncrude at the time, but planting for a contractor — we got dropped off in the middle of an oily beach with oily sand as far as the eye could see.

Even planting in earlier clear - cuts did not move me like seeing what was happening on the tar sands.

Not exact matches

Grantham also has strong views on the oil market, which isn't surprising for a devoted environmentalist who participated in Keystone pipeline protests and has called for the death of the «tar sands.»

The pipeline would connect Canada's tar sands with refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast that specialize in processing heavy crude oil.

He has also edited cool stuff, like photo essays from the Canadian tar sands to the streets of Cairo, a profile of Vine's hottest star, and documentaries on the binge - watching world record and hacking the grid.

Over the last few days, posts by Bill McKibben in the Guardian and by NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen on his own website at Columbia have again brought forward the statistic that, «the tar sands are estimated to contain at least 400 GtC (equivalent to about 200 ppm CO2).»

On this issue too it seems their heads are also firmly planted in the tar sands.

Posted by Jeff Rubin on July 28th, 2010 under SmallerWorldTags: auto industry, carbon emissions, carbon policy, china, tar sands • 8 Comments

While federal panjandrums argue that the tar sands may be key to our economic prosperity, our politicians couldn't put aside their partisan views long enough to complete a national report on the project's formidable water liabilities.

Add in stolid First Nations resistance to a proposed pipeline from the tar sands to Kitimat, and all these powerful pressures converge on the aptly named Second Narrows, which already has seen its oil tanker traffic rise precipitously in the past decade.

In the 1970s, AOERP had concerns about the impact of sulphur oxide emissions and the resulting acid rain on lakes in the tar sands area in northeastern Alberta.

In recent months, Harper has withdrawn Canada from the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, slashed funding for scientific agencies and muzzled government scientists, all while promoting tar sands as a healthy addition to the world's energy mix.

It turns out Canadian tar sands companies and American conservationists agree on something: The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would significantly raise America's gas prices.

The State Department announced today that it will delay the decision - making process on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, citing the need for more clarity around the project's route.

The demand for Canadian tar sands has declined since the Keystone XL pipeline project was first announced in 2008, casting doubt on the feasibility of building the pipeline.

Falling oil prices and rising costs have prompted Stavanger, Norway - based Statoil ASA to suspend work on its 40,000 - barrel / day tar sands / oil sands project in northern...

Last week's 210,000 gallon spill of tar sands from the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota wasn't supposed to factor into the Nebraska commission's decision on the Keystone XL permit.

The Natural Resources Defense Council is tracking a series of industry announcements that are «pouring cold water on the argument that tar sands development...

A review by ActiveHistory.ca describes the book as an essential text on the history of Alberta's tar sands.

West Coast works with First Nations and communities fighting against tar sands pipelines in the courtroom, in boardrooms, on the land and on the water.

West Coast Environmental Law is working to prevent the expansion of the tar sands by opposing pipelines and tanker projects in BC in order to protect our watersheds, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, our climate, and the human communities that rely on them.