Sentences with phrase «tar sands into»

industry requires investment — our gov» t isn't directing any of the «billions» it makes from the tar sands into green energy tech or even saving a penny of it for any useful reason.

This Monday, White House spokesperson Josh Earnest said that President Obama would make a finial decision before the end of his term on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada's tar sands into the U.S. and beyond if approved.

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

It is designed to capture around 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from a plant that turns heavy Canadian tar sands into useable products.

According to experts in the failure of oil and gas pipelines, there are a handful of factors that can contribute to a pipeline rupture, like the one on Exxon Mobil's Pegasus pipeline that spilled toxic diluted bitumen or dilbit from the Canadian tar sands into a Mayflower, Arkansas lake and subdivision.

It might surprise many viewers that it would take three times the weight equivalent of CO2 in the energy needed just to convert the bitumen in the tar sands into the same amount of conventional crude oil.

Converting petroleum from tar sands into a type of oil is more costly because it requires strip - mining or the injection of steam to drain the petroleum.

Experiments at the Philadelphia thermal depolymerization plant have converted heavy crude oil, shale, and tar sands into light oils, gases, and graphite - type carbon.

Kinder Morgan can keep their pipeline, but Messrs. Weaver and Horgan have to get a law passed, that bans the importation of the dirty, tar sands into beautiful British Columbia.

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

Not exact matches

The report also counters warnings from environmentalists that the pipeline's construction would spur a huge increase in production from western Canada's tar sands, believed to be one of the biggest reserves of crude oil outside Saudi Arabia — unleashing torrents of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

It was like Dix was haunted by classic BC NDP campaign gaffes throughout recent history... «restraint is over,» «can we start again,» «axe the tax» — so he decided not to say much of anything in order to avoid stepping into the, um, tar sands.

A lot of dirty oil is going to come out of the tar sands, be refined in China and create enough Co2 to push the planet into climate disaster.

Refiners don't particularly want tar sands oil, which is tougher to make into usable transportation fuel, so it sells for about $ 20 to $ 30 less per barrel than crude from Texas or the Dakotas.

Last week's 210,000 gallon spill of tar sands from the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota wasn't supposed to factor into the Nebraska commission's decision on the Keystone XL permit.

On paper, the TransCanada Corporation now has the Trump administration's blessings to add hundreds of miles of pipeline to allow hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude produced by the Alberta tar sands to flow daily into the U.S., a permission twice denied by President Barack Obama two years ago (by veto and by outright denial of its permit), but it's premature to assume the project will actually get built.

Fleming said the report highlights an incident in Michigan last year where another Enbridge tar sands pipeline ruptured, dumping three million litres of crude into the Kalamazoo River.

Appel says a modified version of thermal depolymerization could be used to inject steam into underground tar - sand deposits and then refine them into light oils at the surface, making this abundant, difficult - to - access resource far more available.

Human emissions of the potentially harmful trace metal vanadium into Earth's atmosphere have spiked sharply since the start of the 21st century due in large part to industry's growing use of heavy oils, tar sands, bitumen and petroleum coke for energy, a new Duke University study finds.

Yet governments and industry are rushing into expanded use of fossil fuels, including unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, shale gas extracted by hydrofracking, and methane hydrates.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

Moreover, I think you are failing to take into account that while Oil is running out, we have more than enough coal, oil shale, tar sands, etc. to continue to cook our goose.

This is a practical impossibility due to increased amounts of greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere from the growing global production and burning of coal, tar / oil sands, heavy oil and bitumen.

However, if the tar sands are thrown into the mix it is essentially game over.»

That leaves Keystone XL as the only viable prospect for moving tar sands oil into the global market.

The key issue here — far larger than the debate over a 17 % or an 84 % excess emissions per [barrel] of tar sands oil vs. light sweet crude — is highlighted by, [but] not put into full energy and climate context by, the compelling and depressing Charles Homans Foreign Policy article [link].

Due to a legal technicality, ExxonMobil is not required to pay into a cleanup fund because tar sands oil is not regulated like conventional oil.

We can not burn all of the fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal and unconventional fossil fuels such as tar shale and tar sands) and release the CO2 into the air without creating a different planet.

In the weeks following the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline that spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil (or tar sands diluted bitumen) into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood and lake, the news about the spill was just one depressing story after the next as we learned that wildlife had been oiled, local residents, including children, were becoming sick, contaminated water was pumped into the lake, the media was being intimidated to reduce access and coverage and that Exxon may have known about the spill earlier than they are letting on.

More than six months since tar sands oil spilled into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood, two homes have just been leveled by Exxon in order to clean up oil that was found under their foundations.

How am I, with relatively more education and money (though no more influence), to tell BP that a.) using Canadian tar sands is a really bad idea and b.) I don't like the fact that refining said tar sands will throw 40 % more CO2 into the Midwestern air in coming years, so stop it already?

According to a thirty - year - old law in the US, diluted bitumen coming from the Alberta tar sands is not classified as oil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport the corrosive substance across the US — with proposed pipelines like the Keystone XL — are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

Here's the tweet from @exxonmobil sent in response to critics who pointed out that, because of a major loophole that needs to be closed, bitumen is not considered crude oil, and therefore tar sands pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund.

Critics of the TransCanada pipeline have warned of potential spills in America's heartland as well as the climate impacts of allowing more tar sands oil, which has a higher carbon footprint than conventional sources, into the US and other markets.

bitumen is not considered crude oil, and therefore tar sands pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund

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.»

According to a thirty - year - old law in the US, diluted bitumen coming from the Alberta tar sands is not classified as oil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport tar sands crude across the United States are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

Five years ago, a pipeline spilled a million gallons of tar sands crude into a Michigan river — and we're still cleaning it up.

«If the tar sands are thrown into the mix it is essentially game over,» Hansen, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration climatologist, explained about reclaiming a stable climate.

By Susan Casey - Lefkowitz Natural Resources Defense Council Monday, March 11, 2013 A deeper dive into the State Department draft environmental review shows that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is not needed.

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.

Human emissions of the potentially harmful trace metal vanadium into Earth's atmosphere have spiked sharply since the start of the 21st century due in large part to industry's growing use of heavy oils, tar sands, bitumen and petroleum coke for energy, a new Duke University study published in the Proceedings... Read more →

Both Hughes and Hall think the new data should be factored into the debate over Canada's tar sands reserves, which cover an area about the size of Florida.

To increase supplies, most companies are looking to tar sands in Canada or converting coal or natural gas into liquid fuels, technologies that emit far more carbon dioxide than conventional oil does.

In this way, Hall said, gas helps turn tar sands «into something a bit closer to what we call oil.»

The multi-billion dollar refinery, which processes tar sands imported from Alberta, Canada, into crude oil, is located in Southwest Detroit bordering the neighboring communities of River Rouge, and Melvindale.

The National Transportation Safety Board released its findings from a two year investigation of the 2010 Enbridge tar sands crude pipeline spill (which DeSmogBlog has covered in depth) that dumped over a million gallons of toxic diluted bitumen (or DilBit) into the Kalamazoo River and its watershed.

This briefing finds that the transport of tar sands oil through pipelines in the United States is exempt from payments into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which creates a free ride worth over $ 375 million to tar sands oil producers between 2010 and 2017.

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.

But tar sands are between 12 and 20 percent more carbon intensive than even regular oil, especially when burning of the, worse than coal, coke bi-product is taken into account.