Sentences with phrase «tar sands produces»

The new impact statement says that extracting, shipping, refining and burning oil from the tar sands produces more climate - altering greenhouse gases than most conventional oil, but less than many of the project's critics claim.

On a lifetime basis, a gallon of gasoline made from tar sands produces about 15 % more carbon dioxide emissions than one made from conventional oil.

Not exact matches

One pipe would carry tar sands - produced petroleum from Edmonton to Kitimat, where it would then be transported to tankers.

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.

Canada currently produces about four million barrels of oil a day but 61 percent of that volume comes from high cost and carbon intensive mining in the tar sands.

Whether such a quantity can be produced from tar sands and oil shale at a price near (never mind below) $ 30 per barrel is highly uncertain, but more suggestive of Lomborgs confusion in any case is that the price he mentions is higher (according to his own Figure 65) than the price of oil has been for any prolonged period in the last 120 years except for 1979 - 86, in the aftermath of the second (1979) Arab - OPEC oil - price shock.3 This means resources of tar sands and oil shale that would be economically exploitable only at prices around $ 30 per barrel are in fact more expensive than oil has been for nearly all of the last century.

The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, showed that the production of tar sands and other heavy oil — thick, highly viscous crude oil that is difficult to produce — are a major source of aerosols, a component of fine particle air pollution, which can affect regional weather patterns and increase the risk of lung and heart disease.

Of course, Keystone XL might not be used at full capacity at all times and industry estimates of the greenhouse gases associated with producing and burning tar sands oil can be as low as 482 kilograms per barrel, depending on whether the tar sands were mined or not.

That is why oil from wells requires about 1 barrel of oil to produce up to100 barrels of oil, while the tar sands require the equivalent of about 1 barrel of oil to produce at best about 5 barrels of fuel.

Klein follows the «dark» money behind the propaganda of climate - change denial, the effort to dismantle the federal government to curtail corporate regulation, and the justification for the feverish pursuit of the riskiest forms of carbon - emission - producing energy from tar sands extraction to deep - water drilling, fracking, and mountaintop - removal coal mining.

Around two tons of tar sand must be processed to produce one barrel of heavy bitumen - based crude oil.

And, of course, tar sands oil produces three times the amount of CO2 as more convential oil.

, we could still be the leader in developing safer clean energy for the future and producing a better future for our children, rather than going after the last drop of oil in pristine environments, off - shore, in the tar sands.

Well, because tar sand - extracted oils have a 2X + greater carbon footprint than «conventional oil,» operating margins for producing oil in Alberta will be roughly 1/2 as good as those of the competing state oil companies, once Cap & Trade is fully implemented.

First, producing oil from tar sands emits two to three times the global warming pollution of conventional oil.

If allowed, the mine would produce more carbon pollution than the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

Tar sands oil not only exceeds conventional petroleum, but the energy used in mining, processing, and transporting tar sands oil makes it slightly worse — in terms of CO2 produced per unit energy — than coTar sands oil not only exceeds conventional petroleum, but the energy used in mining, processing, and transporting tar sands oil makes it slightly worse — in terms of CO2 produced per unit energy — than cotar sands oil makes it slightly worse — in terms of CO2 produced per unit energy — than coal.

Nor is oil produced from the Canadian tar sands as dirty from a climate perspective as many believe (some of the oil produced in California, without attention from environmentalists, is worse).»

Tar sands crude is one of the world's dirtiest, most expensive - to - produce, and difficult - to - extract oils — and many analysts argue that those reserves will be among those left in the ground.

«We urge the State Department to do a better job in analyzing the effect that Keystone XL would have on the development of the Canadian tar sands and the additional carbon pollution that would result, as well as the effect that Keystone XL would have on the quantity of carbon pollution produced by the U.S. transportation sector.

We analyzed how much carbon tar sands oil produces and assessed the climate impact of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding that building it would unleash a massive expansion of tar sands development and cause a dramatic increase in carbon pollution.

Tar sands oil is one of the dirtiest fossil fuels in commercial production today and produces three to five times more climate changing emissions than conventional crude oil.

In Canada, the dirty energy industry lobby has been hard at work creating whitewash campaigns to help sell Canadian tar sands to the rest of the world, even claiming that they are producing «ethical oil,» whatever that is.

Two sites — an existing fertiliser plant and a new refinery that will produce oil from tar sand bitumen — are to be the first users of the pipeline, capturing 1.6 - 2 million tonnes per year from 2015.

Additional escalation of the mining impact occurs as conventional oil mining is supplanted by tar sands development, with mining and land disturbance from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times greater than conventional oil production per unit area [152], but with substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].

Producing synthetic crude oil from tar sands generates three times the global warming pollution of conventional crude production.

«What it's carrying is oil that is produced in Alberta, Canada's tar sands, or sometimes called the oil sands region.»

Just Monday, people began asking the question across social media: «How much water is poisoned to produce one barrel of tar sands?

Again, it's not just that burning tar sands oil produces a lot of emissions; it's that long - term capital investments like Keystone (and coal plants, and coal export facilities) «lock in» those dangerous emissions for decades and make catastrophic climate disruption inevitable.

So to account for the special nastiness of tar sands oil, I factored in the emissions that are associated with «producing» or extracting it.

Overwhelmingly, experts agree that oil mined from tar sands in Alberta, Canada is far worse for the climate than most of the oil currently produced and sold in the United States, because of the added pollution from extracting, refining, and delivering it.

Western Canada Select, the price marker for harder - to - produce bitumen from the tar sands, closed at $ 26.17, or $ 17.70 a barrel below the U.S. oil price.

Cenovus itself, the company using SAP to produce tar sands, describes it as a process used hand - in - hand with typical SAGD methods to produce tar sands.

The Canadian tar sands oil industry produces some 1.5 million barrels a day of this dirty, highly polluting crude.

And if you use water and polymer solvents instead of steam, rather than producing tar sands bitumen you get tar sands bitumen.

Diluted bitumen tar sands is diluted bitumen tar sands whether you produce it using polymer solvents or steam.

Now that most oil is produced off shore and other hostile environments, or from tar sands or from newly - discovered deposits at depths of up to 35,000 feet below the surface, the EROEI of oil production is now rarely as high as 20:1, and for new oil fields much less.

Oil produced from tar sands is a whole heck of a lot worse than conventionally sourced oil on many many fronts — and no amount of technology is likely to change that.

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

It's not just the water toxicity that is huge problem for producing oil from the tar sands.

«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.»

Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].

No one is saying that the EROI of Canadian tar sands applies to the whole world because it is about the only place where oil is being produced in this manner.

Using 10 EROI nuke that produces high quality electricity to produce 3 EROI tar sands that produces oil (that still needs refining into gasoline) would be a major mistake.

Take ConocoPhillips, which highlights its «emerging technologies and alternative energy sources» activities on its website — but fails to mention that in April 2012 it divested all of these activities to focus exclusively on its «core business» of exploring for and producing oil and natural gas, and specifically to take advantage of the North American «shale revolution» and tar sands production in Canada.

Brandt found that the Shell ICP production process has GHG emissions that are similar to those from tar sands production in Alberta; and that the mining and retorting process has emissions significantly in excess of synthetic fuels produced from coal and over 4 times the emissions from conventional oil (Table 2).

It currently takes as many as 3.1 barrels of water to produce one barrel of crude oil from the Alberta tar sands, according to the paper.

Upstream tar sands emissions from filling the pipeline would produce an additional 6.5 million tonnes of carbon pollution every year.