Sentences with phrase «tar sands production»

It is fundamentally impossible to both expand tar sands production with new export pipelines and meet our commitment for global warming not to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius.

In addition, 150 Indigenous Nations in Canada and the US have signed the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion in opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline and all other attempts to allow more tar sands production, including Enbridge's Line 3 and TransCanada's Keystone XL pipelines.

in opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline and all other attempts to allow more tar sands production, including Enbridge's Line 3 and TransCanada's Keystone XL pipelines.

The IEA's 2 degree model suggests tar sands production be limited to 3.3 million bpd.

«Industry insiders and even pro-tar sands government officials in Canada understand that the expansion of tar sands production is not inevitable.

Capital will be a limiting factor for expansion of tar sands production * LONG * before transportation will be.

Two, transportation is NOT the limiting (or even secondary limiting) factor is expanding tar sands production.

Comparing the environmental nightmare of tar sands production to the human rights horror of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia or the repression of dissent in Iran?

A new report from Canada's environment ministry shows that emissions from expanding tar sands production and use will double by 2020 and will overwhelm emission cuts in energy production elsewhere.

Without additional export pipeline capacity, Canada's tar sands production may max out existing pipelines as soon as late 2013.

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).

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.

Without access to major U.S. export terminals from Keystone XL and other routes, tar sands production will be substantially slowed.»

If you read my most recent article on tar sands, you're well aware of the environmental damage associated with tar sands production.

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

In terms of GHG emissions, tar sands production represents 5 % of Canada's direct emissions, and 0.08 % of estimated total greenhouse gas emissions.

Spikes in Local Cancer Rate Not Linked With Tar Sands Second, as for residents around Fort Chipweyan having high cancer rates and this being linked to tar sands production, the report concludes that the two are not linked.

Repeated a number of times is the stat about how much improvement has been made: Greenhouse gas emissions per unit of output from tar sands production have dropped 39 % since 1990 according to official figures — with a laundry list of improvements undertaken to reduce this aspect of their environmental impact.

There's no doubt that tar sands production is a threat to the environment — in terms of global warming, deforestation, and water pollution it's a nightmare.

Greenhouse Gas Intensity Has Improved, But It Will Remain a Big Problem Which leaves us with greenhouse gas intensity of tar sands production, which even in the most conservative prior estimates is several times higher than for conventional oil production.

More tar sands production means more carbon pollution — and it doesn't take a fancy graph to see that.

And of course, not a word about climate change in talking about why we might not want to expedite tar sands production with the Keystone XL pipeline.

According to theInternational Energy Agency, tar sands production would not exceed 3.3 million barrels per day if we are to have any hope of keeping the climate below the two degree threshold that has been recognized by the international community as necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change.

Two separate research studies, one by internationally recognized water expert Dr. David Schindler and another by Environment Canada, indicates that tar sands production is releasing various toxins, including napthenic acids and polycyclic hydrocarbons, into the air.

Tar sands oil is the dirtiest on Earth, and the Environmental Protection Agency has said clearly that tar sands production releases 82 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional oil.

A new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and Oil Change International quantifies for the first time the financial and carbon impact of public opposition to pipelines and other expanded investment in tar sands production.

It should acknowledge the environmental risk of the pipeline and the larger damage caused by tar sands production and block the Keystone XL.

Industry's correspondence with the Canadian government implicitly recognizes that by providing a low cost transportation solution, Keystone XL would reduce costs and enable significant additional expansion of tar sands production.

The reality is that even with cheap pipeline transport and weak regulation, tar sands production is economically marginal.

Many industry analysts and executives have said that without Keystone XL, limited pipeline capacity would impede expanded tar sands production.

At the very least, saying no to the Keystone XL will slow down plans to triple tar sands production from just under two million barrels a day now to six million barrels a day by 2030.»

The company insists its tar sands production is only 15 % more carbon intensive on a well - to - wheels basis and says it has always played a constructive role in climate - change issues.

For example, some tar sands production uses the tar sands themselves as sources of energy for some of the process — classed as «internal» inputs.

State made several flawed assumptions in its environmental review, including 1) an unrealistically low cost for transporting tar sands by rail from Alberta to Texas, 2) an inaccurate estimate of tar sands production costs and 3) an unrealistic assumption that tar sands production costs will not increase with rising labor, material and energy prices.

The State Department argued that Keystone XL would have little effect on tar sands production because rail could provide an equally feasible and economic transportation option for tar sands.

As a result, if the proposed Keystone XL pipeline led to increased tar sands production, the... Continue reading →

New research reported in Nature Climate Change finds that increased Canadian tar sands production would decrease global oil prices and thereby increase oil consumption.

It must be noted that it was conducted by firms connected to companies involved in tar sands production.

Writing in the New York Times in 2013 Thomas Homer - Dixon wrote: «The most obvious reason is that tar sands production is one of the world's most environmentally damaging activities.

The Canadian Bank of Montreal has revised Canada's economic prospects downward, as more tar sands production facilities close.

Using aircraft to measure air pollution over the Alberta tar sands region, the researchers found that tar sands production emitted between 55 and 101 metric tonnes of secondary organic aerosols per day.

In one of the first studies of its kind, scientists have found that tar sands production in Canada is one of North America's largest sources of secondary organic aerosols — air pollutants that affect the climate, cloud formation and public health.

If it is built, tar sands production would soar.

«In your discussions with the Canadian government, we encourage you to raise concerns over the environmental and social problems associated with tar sands production and make no exemption for the tar sands in any binational agreement addressing climate change» says the open letter.

There is no conceivable way you can calculate this without a tripling of tar sands production, which can not be climate neutral.

Production increases noticeably from the mid-1980s to present day: Visible in the pictures are the tailing ponds holding contaminated water and material from the extraction process, along with surface stripping.So, in light of the near - certain death of the Keystone XL pipeline, will Canada's tar sand production continue to grow in the coming years?

(Alberta tar sand production is currently maxed out because of Canada's limited natural gas supply.)

Imagine a moratorium on Alberta Tar Sand production: yes, a drop in the carbon ocean.

However, reducing the demand for fossil fuels on the other hand would lower the price of oil and put a cap on tar sand production.

Locality is not an issue since tar sand production is mostly confined to Canada.