Sentences with phrase «putting tar sand»

The report also describes other market forces that are putting tar sand developers at a growing disadvantage.

The report puts tar sands development lost revenue at $ 30.9 billion from 2010 through 2013, in part due to the changing North American oil market but largely because of a fierce grassroots movement against tar sands development.

Not exact matches

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.

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].

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.

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.

This announcement will effectively kill the Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline proposal, which would have shipped half a million barrels of tar sands through British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, putting important salmon rivers, coastal rainforests, and sensitive marine waters at risk.

Put your savings and investments to work for climate solutions, not supporting coal and oil corporations, tar sands mining, fracking and pipelines.

The first step to putting our country on the path to addressing the climate crisis is for President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

Right now, Congress is getting ready to vote on legislation to fast - track the Keystone XL pipeline — a project that would drive a rapid expansion of tar sands operations and put the lives of thousands of wolves at risk.

With signs asking to keep tar sands in the ground cheekily blending with the orange party signs on both sides of Thomas Mulcair, and with folks interrupting his speech again and again with questions from within the crowd, they put pressure on Mulcair so as to clarify his position on Energy East.

The details will eventually come out, but it looks like another case of Keystone Cops running around like chickens with their heads cut off while they try to keep us safe from the inevitable ruination that results when you try to put corrosive tar sands crude in a pipeline.

They now know that the pipeline would only generate 35 permanent full time positions, while putting America's breadbasket at risk of spills in order to get tar sands to ports where most will be refined and exported internationally.

«An overwhelming objection is that the exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts... governments are acting as if they are oblivious to the fact that there is a limit on how much fossil fuel carbon we can put into the air.»

Amanda Starbuck, the Climate Program Director at Rainforest Action Network, put it this way: «Many big corporations that sell commodities far removed from oil extraction are nonetheless enabling the nightmarish expansion of the tar sands by refusing to purge tar sands oil from their fuel supply chains.

For example, Earthjustice represents four U.S. tribes in an effort to block a massive tar sands pipeline in Canada that would put treaty fishing areas at risk of catastrophic oil spills.

«This letter puts the biggest corporate consumers of oil on notice that there's no excuse not to invest in cleaner, more efficient fleets, and that it's simply wrong to source oil from the tar sands, which is fouling the land and water in communities across the country, from Maine to Kalamazoo to Utah.»

To put this in perspective, the Keystone XL pipeline would carry up to 830,000 barrels of heavy tar sands oil per day (303 million barrels / year), enough to supply the energy for over 38 million cars, or the equivalent of 1.8 QBtu annually.

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.

(1) Putting aside actual so - called fossil carbon (i.e. shales, coal, oil, gas tar sands) which are all relatively unreactive geologically overall (unless those pesky humans dig them up and burn them) there are in fact (today) substantial pools of potentially more reactive «fixed» carbon other than the active biosphere's biomass.

Tar sands crude oil pipeline comanies may be putting the American public's safety at risk by using conventional pipeline technology to transport a highly corrosive, acidic and potentially unstable blend of thick raw bitumen and volatile natural gas liquid condensate called DilBit.

If the oil industry wants to pipe these dangerous tar sands oils over our water sheds and aquifers, putting our drinking supply and neighborhoods at risk, they should not only be required to pay into the cleanup fund, they should be paying far more than the 8 cents per barrel they pay for conventional oil since these tar sands oils are not just worse for the environment, but potentially pose a greater risk of spills and are even harder to clean up.

The United Church is a major institution that agrees with the simple fact that the majority of the world's fossil fuel reserves, including Canada's tar sands, need to stay in the ground and their decision makes it even more ridiculous that no Canadian political party is putting forward climate policies that acknowledge this,» said Cam Fenton, tar sands organizer at 350.org.

Alberta's internationally recognised «tar sand» reserves are now put at the equivalent of more than 175 billion barrels of crude oil.

A new study has found that the air pollution from Alberta's massive tar sands operations is putting the health of downwind residents at risk by releasing unsafe levels of carcinogenic and toxic chemicals into the air.