Sentences with phrase «tar sands infrastructure»

Fracked gas pipelines are also a key component of the tar sands infrastructure: up to 60 per cent of fracked gas extracted in Canada is actually used to fuel other parts of the oil and gas industry, including the tar sands.

The Sierra Club and its allies are not alone in calling for a broader look at expanded tar sands infrastructure.

Not exact matches

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

U.S. permits for multiple proposed Canadian tar sands pipelines should be considered in light of an overall climate change strategy, rather than the current practice of considering each energy infrastructure proposal on a project - by - project basis.

Instead, world leaders have pandered and caved to the powerful fossil fuel lobby: rubber stamping massive carbon - intensive infrastructure, unlocking billions of tonnes of new carbon in hard - to - reach places like the deep offshore ocean, the arctic, or hard - to - extract resources like tar sands, and proceeded to design energy policy around scenarios incompatible with a safe global climate.

Alternatively, it could mean that being near peak oil there will be inertia in the system due to investments made in the infrastructure for coal - based energy, tar sands, shale, or what have you.

According to Shorting the Climate, a report documenting big bank support for fossil fuel infrastructure, the top global and U.S. banks provided $ 785 billion for fossil fuel infrastructure such as coal and tar sands development from 2013 through 2015.

The «North American Energy Infrastructure Act,» HR 3301, which would allow Congress to approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and any other pipeline that crosses the U.S. border.

Sure, these tar sands assets were stranded because of low oil prices, and the infrastructure built to extract tar sands could be turned back on anytime, but that seems very unlikely.

The gut - check issue for McKibben and his supporters — thousands of whom turned out for a mass demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17 — is the Keystone XL pipeline, a 3,400 - mile pipe proposed by oil infrastructure company TransCanada that will allow crude oil extracted from the tar sands of Alberta, in southern Canada, to be refined on the Gulf of Mexico.

Or we can reject them by eliminating tar sands from our energy infrastructure.

Cynically, the report pegs the «harmlessness» to the idea that since tar sands will be exploited anyway, transport need not take into account building infrastructure to ensure that it will indeed be exploited to the last drop.