Sentences with phrase «tar sands oil»

The Trans Mountain pipeline, a project of U.S. company Kinder Morgan, would allow tar sands oil producers to ship their product to China and other Asian countries.

If approved, Kinder Morgan's proposal would see the transport of tar sands oil expanded from its present level of approximately 300,000 barrels per day to 890,000 barrels per day.

The environmentalist posted a tweet Thursday saying the pipeline carrying «dirty tar sands oil» would be a step backward in efforts to solve the climate crisis.

In a world that has committed to quickly reduce its reliance on fossil fuels in the coming decades, will there be a sustained market for tar sands oil to support Kinder Morgan's proposal?

Common Dreams By Jessica Corbett 6 Feb 2018 Michael Foster, the valve turner who temporarily halted the flow of tar sands oil in TransCanada's Keystone pipeline in October 2016, called for future actions to address the global climate crisis before he headed to prison, where he is expected to serve at least a year of his three - year sentence.

In the five years since the incident, we should have improved tar sands oil spill response.

Current alternatives to the Keystone XL for transporting tar sands oil are on a much smaller scale, in much earlier stages of development, and in many cases face such significant opposition that they are unlikely to move ahead in the next five to 10 years if at all.»

Heintz: Our first step was to exit from investments in coal and tar sands oil, two of the most carbon - intensive fossil fuels.

The tar sands oil, which stayed in the water, presented an even bigger chemistry problem.

Besides their Colorado facilities, the two companies are partners in Syncrude Canada, the largest tar sands oil developer in Canada.

Those deadlines would have been practical for a typical spill — but not for a tar sands oil spill.

It makes perfect free - market sense that Chinese investors would want to invest a lot of money into Canadian tar sands oil extraction ventures - especially if they had some inkling that the downstream products could come their way by freighter.Pipe dream indeed.

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.

In the video above photographer Garth Lenz shares shocking photos to explain the scale of destruction caused by tar sands oil extraction.

Increasingly larger volumes of liquid fuel made from tar sands oil may, in the future, be exported from US refineries with access to an oil pipeline originating in Alberta Canada.

The trio took top honors in the category for their work on «The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of,» a project that began with a seven - month investigation into the million - gallon spill of Canadian tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River in 2010.

The EU tried to label tar sands oil as more carbon - intensive than other crude sources, and a public message from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other African leaders accuse Canada of contributing to famine and drought (studies have shown tar sands are likely to devastate agriculture in Africa).

Even if buying coal or tar sands oil is artificially cheap right now (price on carbon anyone?)

More damning evidence against Enbridge over the Michigan pipeline failure back in 2010, that spilled tar sands oil in the Kalamazoo river: The Detroit Free Press reports that the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board says Enbridge knew about the very problem that led to the spill five years beforehand and did nothing about it.

Washington, DC — This morning, Senator Bernie Sanders (I - VT) added his voice to the growing opposition to the Keystone XL, a 1,700 mile pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

The pipeline carried more than 90,000 barrels of tar sands oil from Illinois to Texas every day.

«Don't pick winners and losers among all the heavy oil being produced in the world: Mexico, Nigeria, Venezuela, not to mention California heavy crude that has a higher greenhouse - gas footprint than our tar sands oil.»

In a video message released by TarSandsAction.org, Sen. Sanders said, «Building this pipeline will keep America addicted to oil, and while it might be a good idea for Koch Industries, which supplies and refines large volumes of Canadian tar sands oil, it is a bad deal for our country,» said Sen. Sanders.

In addition to tea party congressional Republicans, opposition to continuing the wind credit comes from the American Energy Alliance, a Washington, D.C. - based industry group linked to petrochemical interests that promote expanded drilling for fossil fuels, including in the protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and approval of the proposed XL pipeline to bring Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in Texas and the Gulf Coast.

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.

The pipeline approval comes two months after Obama rejected a proposal for the 1,300 - mile Keystone XL pipeline from the Alberta tar sands oil fields to Texas after large protests by environmental groups.

-- Tar sands oil only maintains the status quo of directly and indirectly helping fund terrorists and rogue nations that want to kill Americans with our very own petrodollars.

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.

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.

There's good reason to be concerned about potential leaks, since Enbridge is responsible for spilling more than 1 million gallons of tar sands oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River, in what became the worst tar sands leak in US history.

Furthermore, water intensity of tar sands production is high: One barrel of tar sands oil requires the equivalent of three barrels of water.

We need to know, in case a tar sands oil spill occurs like the one to the Kalamazoo River last year.»

Quick aside: Molasses behaves similar to tar sands oil This is, essentially, the same way tar sands oil or diluted bitumen behaves in water.

A Bloomberg report reveals that the 1,700 mile tar sands oil pipeline would likely have the effect of raising the cost of gasoline by $ 0.20 a gallon.

The XL pipeline would carry 900,000 barrels of tar sands oil a day from Canada to Texas.

Whether it is tar sands oil, dilbit or conventional crude, oil spills are a mess to clean up and the oil industry should pay a cleanup fee for a barrel of one type of oil as it does for another.

«The great irony of this tragic spill in Arkansas is that the transport of tar sands oil through pipelines in the US is exempt from payments into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

So again, they consider tar sands oil just like conventional oil when it comes to their pipelines, but not when it comes to cleaning the spills those pipelines create.

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

The incident is refueling calls for the Obama administration to reject the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would deliver tar sands oil from Canada to refineries in Texas.

In an email, Damanskis said this was the start of a new series of videos they'll be doing about tar sands oil, so check out their YouTube page for more.

According to the oil industry, tar sands oil is oil when the oil industry needs oil spill cleanup funds, but it isn't oil when it comes to paying for that cleanup fund.

Exxon may indeed end up paying for all of the oil spill cleanup in Mayflower, but they are not paying the 8 - cents - per - barrel fee for the tar sands oil, as they would if they were transporting conventional oil.

But when it comes to the safety regulations for how these oils are transported via pipeline, they should be regulated differently, considering that tar sands oil is more corrosive and harder to cleanup.

A few years back I wrote about plans for the Murphy Oil Refinery in northeastern Wisconsin to expand operations 700 %, to take advantage of tar sands oil piped in from Canada.

While I think there is legitimate cause for concern as to whether Exxon really will pay for the damage they have caused (Ben Jervey has a good post on this point), the broader concern is that this 1980 law is currently allowing oil companies shipping tar sands oil to get away without contributing to the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

As you may know (and as is mentioned in the video), the US is currently considering, and likely to approve, a pipeline that would pump the tar sands oil to Gulf Coast refineries for US consumption.

«The question is why we should continue this exemption given that it's clear tar sands oil is more likely to spill because it's more corrosive... and more and more tar sands is coming into the U.S.,» said Lorne Stockman, research director at Oil Change International, an advocacy group that supports clean energy.

He promises to ask Trans - Canada to re-apply for its permit for the rejected Keystone Pipeline, which proposed to move tar sands oil in massive pipes through the Midwest down to the Gulf Coast, and he supports drilling off the Atlantic coast, which was halted by the Obama Administration earlier this year.

Furthermore, the Canadian tar sands oil, while certainly «dirtier» to extract than traditional oil sources, releases roughly 15 percent more CO2 per barrel than conventional oil.