Sentences with phrase «tar sands industry»

He wrote that any new pipeline would be useless and un-fillable within the current context where countries are making international commitments and oil prices are not likely to increase to where the tar sands industry needs them to be.

In the face of unrelenting corporate development and encroachment onto Indigenous territories, grassroots movements are persistently mobilizing against the various tentacles of the tar sands industry.

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

In a report released last week, Oil Change International and the Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis demonstrated how the movement against Keystone XL and other tar sands pipelines has contributed to a decline in the profitability of the tar sands industry.

«The tar sands industry wants you to believe that oil is oil, and that its product involves no heightened concerns.

Diluted bitumen, or dilbit, as it's called in the tar sands industry, is approximately three parts tar sands crude, one part natural gas liquids.

The region hasn't experienced a drought since the tar sands industry was established in the 1960s.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- The Canadian government has stepped up lobbying in Europe for its highly - polluting tar sands industry, repeating its threats of trade conflict, a leaked letter shows.

Dr Weaver is now doubly notable for surprising everyone in coming out, conditionally, in favor of a diluted bitumen pipeline across British Columbia and a refinery on the coast there to serve the tar sands industry.

The tar sands industry should accept a large portion of the blame for this stasis.

Environmentalists oppose the tar sands industry, saying the extra energy needed to extract the oil intensifies the impact on climate by about a quarter, while polluted waste water harms wildlife and pollutes rivers.

I'll be blunt: The pathetic attempt by the Canadian government to rebrand the highly polluting, highly environmental destructive, highly energy and carbon intensive tar sands industry as «ethical oil» rears its ugly head again via

I'll be blunt: The pathetic attempt by the Canadian government to rebrand the highly polluting, highly environmental destructive, highly energy and carbon intensive tar sands industry as «ethical oil» rears its ugly head again via CBC News.

A quick glance at the Board of Directors of Brookfield Asset Management, the company managing the private - public park being used as the Occupy Wall Street base, shows they have extensive ties to the oil, gas, and tar sands industry.

Exactly what a «climate leadership position» looks like for the tar sands industry is beyond me at this point, but I am glad to see that the oil companies are not getting in the way of moving things forward.

The Canadian tar sands industry - government group Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program doesn't much like a recent report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that tar sands projects are responsible for elevated

From Aug 20th to Sept. 3rd, thousands are pledging to risk arrest in daily acts of civil disobedience to convince President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring dirty tar sands oil to the U.S.. On September 26th, we will stand up to Prime Minister Harper to pressure him to stem the tar sands industry at its source.

Those clever shills for the tar sands industry, EthicalOil.org, have been running ads on the Oprah Winfrey Show and other networks that claim that by buying Saudi oil, «We've bankrolled a state that doesn't allow women to drive and that doesn't allow them to leave their homes or work without their male guardian's permission.»

Those clever shills for the tar sands industry, EthicalOil.org, have been running ads on the Oprah Winfrey Show and other networks that claim that by buying Saudi oil, «We've bankrolled a state that doesn't allow women to drive and that doesn't allow

Anthony Swift, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council who has spent years studying the tar sands industry, said the Marshall spill points to the need for more stringent dilbit regulations.

«If the long - standing trend of low royalty rates in the tar sands industry and the oil and gas sector as a whole continues, Albertans can expect to forgo significant and increasing amounts of potential revenue,» warns the report.

«We'll do our damndest to pop that carbon bubble over the next few years, and if you look at the tar sands industry in north America, you can see that we are quickly acquiring the capability to do that,» he said.

By DirtyOilSands.org Wednesday, April 03, 2013 QUOTE OF THE WEEK «The Mayflower tar sands spill is another warning of the potential costs of the tar sands industry's reckless expansion plans... [and] offers us a small sample of the risk that tar sands pipelines pose to American communities.»

Moreover, a new environmental review is needed to account for the dramatic changes in the outlook for the tar sands industry, as lower oil prices and a global movement to address climate change has led Exxon to write down billions of barrels of tar sands reserves and companies like Statoil and Total to pull out of the tar sands entirely.

The report, «Material Risks: How Public Accountability Is Slowing Tar Sands Development,» presents market analysis and industry data to support its estimates on lost sales revenue to the tar sands industry as public opposition creates delays and project cancellations.

If that's «responsible resource development,» as federal and Alberta politicians to characterize Canada's tar sands industry, well, we're in deep, deep trouble.

It's no wonder the Harper government pulled out of Kyoto, gutted Canada's environmental laws, and pimps for the tar sands industry as if it were the only way to build a responsible and sustainable economy in Canada.

Or, in the words of the head of the American Natural Gas Association, referring to the bitter struggle between activists and the Canadian tar sands industry over the building of the Keystone XL pipeline, «Call it the Keystone - ization of every project that's out there.»

Facing proposed oil and gas regulations that would increase production costs by less than a dollar a barrel, the tar sands industry notes that its production is already on the edges profitability and adding a few cents per barrel in additional production costs would be very likely reduce production and revenue.

A new business tax and a new provincial government in Alberta with a stronger interest in protecting the environment may also weaken the tar sands industry's prospects.

But now the lowest prices in eight years have the tar sands industry reeling.

You know as well as I do that Alberta's carbon tax has enough holes that you can build a tar sands industry through it.

And without Keystone XL, financial analysts are already saying that the tar sands industry's expansion plan will go off the rails.

Without Keystone XL and the cheap transportation it provides, the tar sands industry will not reach its goal of tripling production by 2030 and the significant climate emissions that come with it.

The CEA was created in the late 2000s by Michael Whatley, a founding partner of a Washington, D.C. - based Republican lobbying group HBW Resources that has close ties to the Alberta, Canada tar sands industry.

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.

«The Mayflower tar sands spill is another warning of the potential costs of the tar sands industry's reckless expansion plans,» wrote NRDC's Anthony Swift in a blog post.

«Although the [research] project appears to seek a sustainable approach,» Schwabe said, «this is done only to make a deeply problematic, highly environmentally damaging business a little less problematic in order to justify strengthening and expanding the tar sands industry.»

Many of us, in fact, want to see the tar sands industry wound down and eventually stopped, even though it pumps tens of billions of dollars annually into our economy.»

«The Mayflower tar sands spill is another warning of the potential costs of the tar sands industry's reckless expansion plans... [and] offers us a small sample of the risk that tar sands pipelines pose to American communities.»

To achieve these goals, the report recommended that the federal government implement a nationwide price on carbon and eliminate subsidies to Canada's fossil fuel industry — particularly, its tar sands industry.

We are saying the tar sands industry is unlawful.

Tar sands are the turning point The article is pretty balanced in showing the many sides of the issue: jobs are on the line; the future of communities dependent on the tar sands industry, such as Fort McMurray, would be left in limbo.

Hence, ClimateAudit is really just an assault on science itself by a slick PR person working for Canada's oil, gas and tar sands industry.

Here are a few takeaways from the tar sands industry's most recent setback.

He co-authored two significant studies that showed the tar sands industry was responsible for significant pollution of waterways in the region.

McKitrick used MM0X to sustain the lobbying of the Fraser Group on behalf of the tar sand industry in Ottawa to influence the Canadian government to not merely drop out of but also actively sabotage Kyoto in international talks, while also subsidizing and using its full diplomatic weight to promote tar sands.

Not exact matches

Posted by Jeff Rubin on July 28th, 2010 under SmallerWorldTags: auto industry, carbon emissions, carbon policy, china, tar sands • 8 Comments

The government and the oil and gas industry have spent lavishly to promote fossil fuel development, but a poll for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers found that only 51 % of us think tar sands / oil sands development is worth the environmental risk; 49 % think it isn't.

The article traces the often unacknowledged federal R&D support and direct investment that made the tar sands / oil sands industry a reality, noting that «the clean energy sector now finds itself in a situation remarkably similar to where the oilsands project was 25 years ago.