Sentences with phrase «tar sands»

To produce one barrel of tar sands oil requires about three barrels of water.

All things considered, the energy you can get from burning a barrel of tar sands oil only barely exceeds the energy required to produce it.

First, producing oil from tar sands emits two to three times the global warming pollution of conventional oil.

With tar sands in the fuel mix, achieving the additional emission reductions will cost more money.

The Canadian tar sands industry has seen better days.

The Canadian tar sands industry was a major part of that chapter, being at that time the leading unconventional oil source.

All of these characteristics make transporting tar sands crude by pipeline much more dangerous than conventional crude.

Such a rapid expansion of tar sands development is part of a global energy scenario that would push average global temperatures as high as six degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

It must be noted that it was conducted by firms connected to companies involved in tar sands production.

It was just the latest in a string of major setbacks for tar sands oil, which has become nearly as bad for corporate profits as it is for the environment.

This is especially true for the most carbon - intensive of fossil fuels such as tar sands oil.

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.

The review used this assumption to get out of any meaningful consideration of the climate pollution from tar sands expansion, and in this time of worsening climate change that is not acceptable.

The pipeline itself is meaningless, what matters, from a climate perspective, are all the additional GHG emissions that would be caused, directly and indirectly, by tar sand development.

But they are still making plenty of profits to make tar sands operations worthwhile.

Climate change, driven by use of fossil fuels like tar sands, is causing extreme weather events around the globe.

The process of converting tar sands into fuel releases three to five times the greenhouse gas emissions of conventional oil.

Using the courts, political pressure, and grassroots power, we're fighting to keep dirty tar sands oil in the ground.

We report on contamination from the millions of gallons of toxic wastewater generated each day by tar sands mines.

With a stroke of his pen, the president could almost (almost) make tar sands into a worthwhile economic proposition for investors.

More tar sands production means more carbon pollution — and it doesn't take a fancy graph to see that.

The proposed pipeline would carry tar sands oil through two Indian reservations.

Just how bad are the emissions from burning tar sand oil?

On a lifetime basis, a gallon of gasoline made from tar sands produces about 15 % more carbon dioxide emissions than one made from conventional oil.

The difference is that it takes a lot more energy, and therefore carbon, to extract and process tar sands oil.

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

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

Yesterday was a big moment in the fight against tar sands.

It is fundamentally impossible to both expand tar sands production with new export pipelines and meet our commitment for global warming not to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius.

And tar sands companies and the public health officials who are supposed to protect us are not up to the job of keep us safe.

Developing tar sands means increasing the already high pollution burden associated with oil production.

The round trip makes the costly - to - extract tar sands oil competitive in a tight global market.

In 2013, Global applied for a permit to allow it to handle heavy tar sands crude oil at the same facility.

Based on the initial description of this product, it appears that it could alleviate many of the risks involved with moving tar sands oil by rail.

New pipelines would mean massive tar sands expansion that is incompatible with a safe global climate.

Conservatives: Support all pipeline projects getting tar sands crude to market.

The industry also opposes changes to how tar sands oil pipelines are regulated.

And we use litigation and advocacy to block legislative efforts to fast - track tar sands infrastructure.

This panel of scientists, engineers and experts - have any of them actually seen what a million gallons of tar sands does to a river, to a community?

Our case was bolstered by the statements made by the industry, banks, and investors on the need for the pipeline to keep tar sands oil flowing.

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

Today, six months later, we still face a serious tar sands threat.

Burning a gallon of gas from tar sands releases as much as 37 percent more carbon pollution than burning a gallon of gas from conventional oil.