Our communities» water, air and land is being compromised by
tar sands operations, which Kinder Morgan's new pipeline will only exacerbate.
And Canada's leaders» reliance on tar sands to drive the economy may be one of the biggest economic miscalculations of our time, as Canadian
tar sands operations are being hammered by plummeting oil prices.
Just this week, Shell was facing calls to disclose future carbon liabilities from
its tar sands operations.
Whilst this overall figure is grabbing all the headlines, buried deep in Shell analysts presentation is the fact that Shell's new jewel in the crown — its carbon intensive
tar sands operations — made a loss in the first quarter of 2009, compared to a profit of $ 249 million in the same quarter last year.
A new study has found that the air pollution from Alberta's massive
tar sands operations is putting the health of downwind residents at risk by releasing unsafe levels of carcinogenic and toxic chemicals into the air.
Check out this video clip of Cree Elder Celina Harpe, who lives in a Cree community about 40 km from Suncor and Syncrude
tar sands operations.
In addition to greenhouse gases,
tar sands operations release large volumes of acid rain - causing sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the environment.
Or at least stop enough of them to cause tar sands operators to think twice about continuing
their tar sands operations.
The groups are calling on the banks to cut business ties with Enbridge Inc. until it stops expanding
tar sands operations, one of the most destructive fossil fuels on the planet.
Right now, Congress is getting ready to vote on legislation to fast - track the Keystone XL pipeline — a project that would drive a rapid expansion of
tar sands operations and put the lives of thousands of wolves at risk.
Booming
tar sands operations in Canada are destroying wildlife habitat at an increasing pace — pushing woodland caribou to the brink of extinction and prompting plans to poison and shoot thousands of wolves in a cruel effort to «protect» the caribou.
What if
the tar sands operations catch fire and blow?
Here is a new question for you: can
the tar sands operations burn, and what happens if they do?
My review of the Fort McMurray fires, asking what happens if they burn
the tar sands operations — follows that.
Plus
the tar sands operations have gigantic tailings and wastewater ponds which are loaded with various types of petrochemicals.
Bloomberg reports smoke from the fire complex has reached
the tar sands operations of SunCor, just north of Fort McMurray.
Canadian tar sand and Venezuelan
tar sand operation are shutting down because they are energy consumer not energy producer.
After a recent bus and helicopter tour of
a tar sands operation in Fort McMurray she had one word to describe what she saw: Mordor.
** By the way, a small research company has recently demonstrated a new technology to effectively remove 98.8 % of the tar / oil from tailling ponds while supply clean hot water for adjacent
tar sand operations.
Not exact matches
Keith is one of the only financial reporters around who's actually visited Alberta's remote
tar sands region to personally meet every major player in the booming Canadian oil
operation.
Business Insider reporter Robert Johnson tried to get a tour of the Alberta
tar, err, oil
sands operations, but was denied.
The first item should be a ban on any imports of Canadian
tar sand oil to the U.S., plus pressure on Canada to shut down those
operations.
We empower local communities to protect themselves from reckless fracking
operations, and we partner with leading scientists, financial analysts, and First Nations to stop the expansion of dirty
tar sands oil development.
Last week, the pipes from Suncor's
operations froze and then burst, spilling 2,200 barrels of toxic
tar sands waste into the Athabasca River for 10 hours.
A time - lapsed map released today by the World Resources Institute using satellite imagery from Global Forest Watch shows how much forest is being lost in Northern Alberta to make way for major industrial
operations, mainly to extract oil from the
tar sands, also referred to as the oilsands.
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.
Furthermore, Utah has approved preliminary plans to start a
tar sands project of its own, which would be the first of its kind in the US — and would likely be as dangerous to the environment as our northern neighbor's infamous
operation.
$ 5.9 million means a lot more to (relatively) small solar and wind
operations than it does to the likes of the
tar sands giants.
In an example of why
tar sands companies» efforts to focus on ways to reduce the carbon intensity of their
operations misses some of the equally bad, and more immediate, environmental problems with
tar sands extraction, it