Sentences with phrase «stop oil sands»

But strong action on power plants would be enough for me — it's really up to Canadians to stop the oil sands menace.

The protests are not going to stop oil sands development.

2) I would like to hear what your three or four more important factors than transportation are that are stopping oil sands developments.

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HSBC, the biggest bank in Europe and the world's seventh - largest, has resolved to stop funding Arctic drilling, tar sands / oil sands development, and most new...

Meaning, if it is built, it is because the interests behind it likely do not believe the promise of the Notley government in Alberta that oil sands production emissions will stop at 100 megatonnes of GHGs.

Drenching sand dunes with oil stops their migration, but this approach is quite destructive to the dunes» animal habitats and uses a valuable resource.

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.

When more energy is spent getting at the oil than the energy you extract, you stop drilling, so I don't see much future for tar sands, deep sea wells, etc. once the conventional sources get too expensive.

We have a slight chance to someday stop tar sands or oil shale production, since it's both expensive and devastating, but not in the Arctic.

Prior to that, Gatti directed the Get Off Oil program for Environment America, where he helped lead that organization's efforts to reduce oil consumption and oppose dirty fuels, including leading efforts to increase vehicle fuel efficiency and stop tar sands oil extraction, and helping to launch the Charge Ahead California campaign to increase access to clean caOil program for Environment America, where he helped lead that organization's efforts to reduce oil consumption and oppose dirty fuels, including leading efforts to increase vehicle fuel efficiency and stop tar sands oil extraction, and helping to launch the Charge Ahead California campaign to increase access to clean caoil consumption and oppose dirty fuels, including leading efforts to increase vehicle fuel efficiency and stop tar sands oil extraction, and helping to launch the Charge Ahead California campaign to increase access to clean caoil extraction, and helping to launch the Charge Ahead California campaign to increase access to clean cars.

We know which oil refineries process tar sands, and ForestEthics has already convinced 19 companies to stop buying from them.

We empower local communities to protect themselves from reckless fracking operations, and we partner with leading scientists, financial analysts, and First Nations to stop the expansion of dirty tar sands oil development.

At current production rates, high - carbon tar sands oil and its byproducts throw off enough greenhouse gas emissions to mark Canada as an obstacle to stopping global warming short of catastrophic levels.

They developed «plans to raise the negatives of the oil - sands industry, boost the costs of producing them [and] stop infrastructure development...»

Over the past year, corporations have come under increasing public pressure to stop using tar sands oil.

What stopping KXL is really about is delaying big capital investments in new oil sands projects.

As suggested in the article, the only way to stop the development of the oil sands (or any new oil development for that matter) is to address the supply side of the supply - demand curve, because as long as oil is at $ 90 bbl the producers will find a way to get their product to market.

Until the world stops using oil, the tar sands will be here.

We can spend billions to build this pipeline and the new tar sands mines required to fill it or we can invest those dollars in solutions that end our addiction to oil, improve the health of our communities and stop climate change.

1) If KXL is stopped, this will, by itself, choke back oil sands production for at least several years.

Saturday, April 20, 2013, Randolph, NH, noon, Durand Lake Recreation Area, off Route 2 Earth Day Event to Stop Tar Sands, Informational Picnic and Pipeline Hike Concerned citizens and environmentalists will come together to draw attention to the possibility of toxic tar sands oil from Canada coming through northern New England via the Portland Montreal Pipe Line (PMLP).

Such an approach would be a sea change from the approach currently pursued by Stephen Harper's government, which has pressed ahead with oil sands development and gutted environmental protections of Canada's lakes and rivers, all the while gagging federal scientists to stop the release of data that may contradict the Conservatives» agenda.

Environmentalists, who have made stopping Keystone a top priority, and many Democrats oppose the proposal due to greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta's massive oil sands projects and other ecological concerns.

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

This time its target is Secretary Clinton; its quest is to get her to stop a new pipeline that would send Canadian tar sands oil into the US.

With All Eyes on Keystone, Another Tar Sands Pipeline Just Crossed the Border «The Keystone XL pipeline may be in political limbo, but that hasn't stopped another Canadian company from quietly pressing ahead on a pipeline project that will ramp up the volume of tar sands oil transported through the U.S.. What's more, the company, Enbridge, is making those changes without a permit, and environmental groups say it is flouting the law.

For at least six weeks, thousands of barrels of tar sands oil have been bubbling up into the forest in Cold Lake, Alberta and neither the oil company or government scientists know how to stop the flow.

So on Friday the Obama administration stopped fighting a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and released documents showing that Hansen was paid $ 250 an hour by a Canadian law firm for testimony against developing Alberta's oil sands; income which Hansen does not appear to have disclosed.

It's time to stop the expansion of the oil sands.»

I'm not prepared to stop using oil from Alberta (tar sands or not) when presented with the current alternatives.