Sentences with phrase «over tar sands»

But much like the debates over the tar sands pipelines, the implications for the climate are simply not being considered seriously.

True, and I agree that they are a vast improvement on the Republican party... but you are seriously not telling me that Obama's emission targets in Paris are high enough, his dilly dallying over the tar sands pipelines, just to name a couple are even remotely good enough?

These questions have become acute due to the investigative work of Vivian Krause, an independent researcher whose articles on this page have in voluminous detail exposed the extent to which U.S. foundations fund activities in Canada, most notably to influence Canadians and Canadian policy over our tar sands, the chief target of global warming activists.

It's the end of the line for the Keystone pipeline (probably), but not for battles over tar sands and climate.

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.

Not exact matches

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).»

It started in 2008, when my partner Kristin and I decided to go to Northern Alberta to fly over the tar / oil sands, to see for ourselves what had up until then been hidden from plain sight.

It was like Dix was haunted by classic BC NDP campaign gaffes throughout recent history... «restraint is over,» «can we start again,» «axe the tax» — so he decided not to say much of anything in order to avoid stepping into the, um, tar sands.

On the eve of President Obama's first foreign visit to Canada, a group of over 50 prominent Canadians have signed an open letter telling Obama that the tar sands don't fit in the new energy economy.

«In your discussions with the Canadian government, we encourage you to raise concerns over the environmental and social problems associated with tar sands production and make no exemption for the tar sands in any binational agreement addressing climate change» says the open letter.

«The pipeline would carry over 500,000 barrels of raw tar sands crude each day.

The price for a barrel of bitumen, the tar - like oil sands that comes from Alberta, fell to just over $ 8 per barrel this week.

April 2016, Keystone Pipeline Freeman, South Dakota TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline spilled 16,800 gallons of tar sand oil over a football field - sized piece of land.

FACED with rising anger from environmentalists last year over his plans for a transcontinental pipeline to deliver treacly Canadian tar sands to Texas oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, the CEO of TransCanada, Russ Girling, expressed surprise.

Using aircraft to measure air pollution over the Alberta tar sands region, the researchers found that tar sands production emitted between 55 and 101 metric tonnes of secondary organic aerosols per day.

However, if the tar sands are thrown into the mix it is essentially game over.»

Finally, Alberta is exporting well over a million barrels of heavy oil every day from these carbon - rich tar sands to the U.S..

In fact, similar arguments abound — BP's justification for developing Canadian tar sands was the same as that of British politicians who argued for slavery — «otherwise, the international competition will take over / those resources are going to be developed anyway.»

I'll take the lack of development of the tar sands over your proposed «solutions» any day of the millennium.

The key issue here — far larger than the debate over a 17 % or an 84 % excess emissions per [barrel] of tar sands oil vs. light sweet crude — is highlighted by, [but] not put into full energy and climate context by, the compelling and depressing Charles Homans Foreign Policy article [link].

In the most recent tar sands protest at the White House in Washington DC during late August, 162 protesters were arrested over three days.

Broadly stated: if you reject a lease and take a large portion of a commodity (here coal, but it could have been natural gas, tar sands, etc.) off the market, you decrease the supply, increase the cost, and, over the long term, decrease the use of that commodity.

We also have the battle over the use of Canada's tar sands oil, Banksy's latest, and more.

The spill and its aftermath has not just shaken an Arkansas town, but has also sparked continued debate over the controversial tar sands oil and how transporting this oil via pipelines puts communities and the climate at risk.

Given the current uproar over Canada's tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline as well as past pitched battles over expanded oil and gas production, I have a hard time imagining Congressional Democrats or their environmentalist supporters getting behind the idea of opening ANWR to oil and gas drilling.

Lorne Stockman, a senior research analyst at Oil Change International, said much of the US petcoke was left over from the refinement of heavy oil from Canada's tar sands.

We are a network of over 50 non-profit environmental organizations, First Nations, community groups and landowners working to stop the expansion of the tar sands and promote the transition to a clean energy economy.

[3] A recent report by the U.S. - based Natural Resources Defense Council shows that if Europe does not act, its imports of tar sands, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels, would likely skyrocket from about 4,000 barrels per day in 2012 to over 700,000 bpd in 2020.

Over one million comments were submitted by citizens opposed to the tar sands pipeline.

Fed - up residents in Michigan's most polluted zip code say the tar sands refinery next door is causing toxic emissions to waft over their neighborhood — and they want out.

The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century.

Alberta's tar sands industry took a couple of major hits over the last two weeks, in large part because of the great job clean energy advocates have done raising the profile of the problems and risks associated with the dirty energy project.

Lorne Stockman points out the «Proponents of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline often cite energy security and the desirability of Canadian over Saudi or Venezuelan crude in promoting the project.

An overwhelming objection is that exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts... [I] f emissions from coal are phased out over the next few decades and if unconventional fossil fuels including tar sands are left in the ground, it is conceivable to stabilize earth's climate.

According to Salon.com, which obtained over 300 emails of personal messages between lobbyists and Canadian officials, the CEA is part of a sophisticated public affairs strategy designed to manipulate the U.S. political system by deluging the media with messaging favorable to the tar - sands industry; to persuade key state and federal legislators to act in the extractive industries» favor; and to defeat any attempt to regulate the carbon emissions emanating from gasoline and diesel used by U.S. vehicles.

The stain on our reputation of late has consistently been due to the controversy over Alberta's tar sands.

«If the tar sands are thrown into the mix it is essentially game over,» Hansen, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration climatologist, explained about reclaiming a stable climate.

The massive pile comes from the Marathon Oil Company's refining of tar sands at its Detroit refinery, and it's been getting a lot of attention over the past few months.

Both Hughes and Hall think the new data should be factored into the debate over Canada's tar sands reserves, which cover an area about the size of Florida.

Vancouver, BC — Over the past two weeks, Justin Trudeau has been hounded by protest and questions over his upcoming decision on the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipelOver the past two weeks, Justin Trudeau has been hounded by protest and questions over his upcoming decision on the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipelover his upcoming decision on the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline.

It's time to take a stand against the Keystone XL pipeline, a dangerous and destructive project that would pump over one million barrels of dirty «tar sands» oil from Canada to the USA every day.

The National Transportation Safety Board released its findings from a two year investigation of the 2010 Enbridge tar sands crude pipeline spill (which DeSmogBlog has covered in depth) that dumped over a million gallons of toxic diluted bitumen (or DilBit) into the Kalamazoo River and its watershed.

Just check out the struggle over the Enbridge Northern Gateway, a pipeline that was slated to be built from the tar sands out to the coast of British Columbia.

It expanded extraction using hydrofracturing in tar sands to increase activity in offshore oil drilling all over the world, thereby maximizing its rate of fossil fuel extraction and processing.

This briefing finds that the transport of tar sands oil through pipelines in the United States is exempt from payments into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which creates a free ride worth over $ 375 million to tar sands oil producers between 2010 and 2017.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 8, 2015)-- The National Academy of Sciences today released a study on diluted bitumen (or «dilbit»), a raw form of tar sands oil making its way across North America in increasing volumes, that supports alarm bells raised by NRDC and other advocacy groups over the last decade.

To this day, over 40 miles of the river are still contaminated by tar sands after over a billion dollars was spent on clean up.

Quantitative policy implications have been defined: coal emissions must be phased out over the next 20 years, and unconventional fossil fuels, such as tar sands and oil shale, must remain undeveloped.

I would change no - one to most, Hansen did go through his boiling oceans phase — tar sands = game over.

Citing over a dozen financial analysts, government officials, and research institutes, they assert that, «Basic economics informs us that there is nothing inevitable about the projected rate of expansion of the tar sands.»