Sentences with phrase «out of the oil sands»

They continue to bail out of oil sands stocks, which are down by 70 percent in the last seven years.

Keystone XL and pipeline capacity out of the oil sands and oil shale projects should be monitored, especially for holders of UNP and the some of the railcar manufacturers.

According to Levant, «If we actually want to make the world a better place, a more moral place, the ethical thing to do is to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of the oil sands, knowing that every barrel we produce in Canada displaces a fascist barrel from Saudi Arabia, a misogynist barrel from Iran and a dictatorial barrel from Venezuela.»

The railroads are already gearing up big - time to handle oil out of the oil sands if a pipeline doesn't go thru.

The Conference Board of Canada (not BoingBoing's favourite think tank) has released a report that says, well, yes, there is a lot of CO2 that comes out of the oil sands, but:

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Not exact matches

Cenovus, one of the biggest of Canada's oil sands producers, said in March that it was operating at lower capacity due to the maxing out of pipelines and other routes through which it sends heavy oil south to U.S. markets.

The U.S. can produce as much shale oil as it wants, but its Gulf Coast refineries are geared toward heavier kinds of crude that can easily process oil sand bitumen but aren't geared toward the lighter crude coming out of, say North Dakota's Bakken play.

The letter also argues that the chiefs of some of the biggest companies involved in Alberta's oil sands industry have publicly come out in favor of such stricter carbon pricing.

The recent surge in growth in North American non-conventional oil production, whether it's light oil from North Dakota or the heavy stuff that comes out of Alberta's oil sands, is made possible by high oil prices, which are in turn linked to world demand remaining robust.

If I take Keystone XL out of the mix, in my toy model, I haven't impacted the cost of the marginal barrel of oil sands because I haven't changed the cost of a barrel shipped by rail, I've simply reduced the profit on the barrels which would be shipped via KXL by forcing them to be shipped to market in a more expensive way.

Even as the agreement was being hashed out, however, attention was already turning to a burst pipeline at Nexen's Long Lake oil sands site that spilled 31,000 barrels of bitumen, sand and salty water into the surrounding muskeg.

Soon, Lake explains, he'll start looking for a lifestyle increasingly on offer to mobile young people like him: work at a northern Alberta oil sands project, but live further south, either flying in and out of a camp or driving up once a week.

The oil we're now pulling out of the ground in North America, whether from the oil sands or shale rock in North Dakota, is tough to get at.

A lot of dirty oil is going to come out of the tar sands, be refined in China and create enough Co2 to push the planet into climate disaster.

Having recently called out the federal government for failing to provide a justification for its decision to approve Shell's Jackpine mine oil sands expansion project (an approach that serves no interest other than the government's, as even industry would stand to benefit from knowing why one project is justified while another, e.g. Taseko's original Prosperity mine, is not), it was reassuring to see that at least this Joint Review Panel (JRP) shares my understanding of this obligation under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, SC 2012, c 19.

My University of Alberta colleague Andrew Leach is fond of pointing out that exports of manufactured products from Southwestern Ontario push up the value of the Canadian dollar, making life more difficult for oil sands producers.

Even as the agreement was being hashed out, however, attention was already turning to a burst pipeline at Nexen's Long Lake oil sands site that spilled 31,000 barrels of bitumen, sand -LSB-...]

As this opinion piece points out, anyone thinking of boycotting oil from the oil sands needs to think about what they're choosing instead:

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The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

While it's true that Notley won with the Alberta Tory dynasty and other opposition parties crumbling all around her, the Alberta NDP platform for 2015 had blanched out many past pledges to slash university tuition fees, regulate the electricity network or tightly control the pace of oil sands expansions.

Oil majors like Shell and Statoil are pulling out of the tar sands already.

After 9 - 11 I began attempting to boycott anything that has and will ever come out of the Middle East, which includes Judaism Catholiscism, Islam, oil and sand.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

We should be digging our way out of our fiscal hole and economic doldrums, instead of burying our heads in the (oil) sand.

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.

In Alberta, these large pits of crude oil are trapped within sand, so getting the oil out of the sand is harder.

CO2 also acts kind of like dishwashing liquid; it scours out oil lurking between grains of sand.

Fracking — the process by which water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to force the oil out of rock formations — is suspected of contaminating nearby aquifers and wells, as well as causing dozens of small earthquakes near the drill sites.

Fracking relies on the high - pressure injection of water, sand, and other chemicals to create microfractures in rock formations, thereby making it easier to draw out oil and gas.

«Oil sands and offshore drilling are both symptoms of the same problem: We're running out of easy oil,» says Simon Dyer, oil sands director at the Pembina Institute, a nonprofit sustainable energy research organizatiOil sands and offshore drilling are both symptoms of the same problem: We're running out of easy oil,» says Simon Dyer, oil sands director at the Pembina Institute, a nonprofit sustainable energy research organizatioil,» says Simon Dyer, oil sands director at the Pembina Institute, a nonprofit sustainable energy research organizatioil sands director at the Pembina Institute, a nonprofit sustainable energy research organization.

He lost a lot of money in stocks like Canadian oil sands and others and that's when he knew he'd run out of inventive ideas to keep his portfolio going on stocks.

The creepy church buried beneath sand dunes, the crumbling lighthouse and the reclaimed oil platforms are stand out moments that are all well designed and are full of those «Huh, something bad happened here» moments.

Building the Fort McMurray Airport out of it might just offset five seconds of the oil sands production down the road, but it's a start.

After a week of segments on climate confusion, oil sands and cities and efficiency, we moved out to the broadest view of the human adventure, with a discussion of the notion that Earth has entered an epoch called the Anthropocene.

The one pipeline would be no big deal if there were some agreement that that's all the oil that's coming out of the sands, but how likely is that?

Geophysics reveals the requirements: phase out coal, leave tar sands in the ground, do not pursue the last drops of oil.

Environmentalists» statements about the massive greenhouse impact from oil - sand carbon don't mention that it would take a millennium or more, even at a breath - taking rate of extraction of, say, 5 million barrels a day, for that CO2 impact to be fully realized (as if no new energy options, or methods for sopping up CO2, will arise in the future), as pointed out by Andrew Leach last June:

Nader said, «We do not need nuclear power... We have a far greater amount of fossil fuels in this country than we're owning up to... the tar sands... oil out of shale... methane in coal beds...» Sierra Club consultant Amory Lovins said, «Coal can fill the real gaps in our fuel economy with only a temporary and modest (less than twofold at peak) expansion of mining.»

Here's the tweet from @exxonmobil sent in response to critics who pointed out that, because of a major loophole that needs to be closed, bitumen is not considered crude oil, and therefore tar sands pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund.

Arkansas» Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has contracted out the «independent analysis of the cleanup» of the ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill to Witt O'Brien's, a firm with a history of oil spill cover - ups, a DeSmogBlog investigation reveals.

Perhaps the most totemic sign of the times came in September when the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a philanthropic body set up by the heirs to the Standard Oil fortune, announced that it would pull its money out of fossil fuels, beginning with coal and tar sands.

On Tuesday night, hundreds of Delaware residents near the Delaware City Refinery spoke out at a public hearing about the air permit for the facility as it plans to refine tar sands oil.

Alberta Energy has awarded Titanium Corporation a C$ 3.5 - million grant to research the value - added opportunities and environmental benefits of stripping out hydrocarbons and heavy minerals from oil sands... Read more →

The forecast also breaks out oil sands production by extraction method (mining and drilling) and tracks the amount of domestic upgrading.

Berman, author of This Crazy Time and co-founder of ForestEthics, pointed out that every independent study, including one from the U.S. Department of Energy, has found that the oil sands are one of the world's dirtiest forms of oil, producing three times more greenhouse gas emissions per barrel produced, and 22 per cent more than conventional oil when their full life cycle of emissions, including burning them in a vehicle, is included.

Millions of gallons of pressurized water, sand, and chemicals are then used to create fissures in the rock and release oil, which is pumped out.

That means that the environmental benefit of raising fuel efficiency from 20 to 27 MPG would be wiped out if that vehicle is now burning oil from tar sands.

Grand Chief Serge Simon of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake said, «On behalf of the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to carry even more tar sands oil out of Canada.