Sentences with phrase «quality sand into»

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With a view of Lake Mead in the distance, the rangers explained that the health of the desert affects the lake's water quality because a healthy desert crust prevents sandstorms, which blow sand and debris into the water.

What makes it special is the presence of a massive headland along this part of the coast that bends the winds into an offshore direction, cleaning up swells that are often overpowering and crossed up elsewhere, as well as a very indented rocky coastline with many rock and sand points, reefs and quality beachbreaks tucked in.

Hall, who wasn't involved in Hughes» study, thinks the EROI for oil sands would fall closer to 1:1 if the tar sands» full life cycle — including transportation, refinement into higher quality products, end use efficiency and environmental costs — was taken into account.

Organizers are concerned about Canada's relentless lobbying against a key piece of EU climate policy, the Fuel Quality Directive, which aims to reduce imports of highly polluting fuels such as tar sands and synthetic oil from coal into Europe.

«Efforts to stay within a carbon budget, increase fuel efficiency, reduce costs and improve air quality mean that if capital continues to flow into oil sands, the projects risk becoming stranded assets», says Carbon Tracker's research director, James Leaton.

Using 10 EROI nuke that produces high quality electricity to produce 3 EROI tar sands that produces oil (that still needs refining into gasoline) would be a major mistake.

«Efforts to stay within a carbon budget, increase fuel efficiency, reduce costs and improve air quality mean that if capital continues to flow into oil sands, the projects risk becoming stranded assets.»

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?