Sentences with phrase «tar sands threat»

«The tar sands threat to Europe `: briefing from Friends of the Earth Europe, Transport and Environment and Greenpeace, January 2014.

Not exact matches

For liquid fuels, the threats to watch are tar sands, oil shale, and — the gigatonne gorilla — coal to liquids.

In the push for quick deployment, and quick profits, we have cut corners in many areas (think deep sea drilling, fracking, interstate transit systems, waste handling, tar sands, the threat of [coronal mass ejections] to our electronic and power systems... this could go on...).

The landmark decision, affirming a challenge brought by the Sierra Club and allies at Earthjustice, WildEarth Guardians, and High Country Conservation Advocates, could have far - reaching implications for protecting our climate from the threat of mining and burning of coal, natural gas, tar sands, and other fossil fuels.

In effort to bring attention to the threat posed by supertanker carrying tar sands oil from Vancouver, ForestEthics has launched a new tool called TarSandsSOS that lets citizens track supertankers hauling tar sands oil along the Pacific coast in real time.

This disastrous tar sands pipeline poses a grave threat to our land, water, communities and climate — but the state of Nebraska has the power to stop it in its tracks.

Monday, May 7, 6:30 pm, Colatina Exit, Upstairs 1st Monday Film: SPOIL» — a movie about the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, Canada under threat from tar sands oil.

The tar sands in Canada are an environmental disaster in other ways, but the incremental emissions of greenhouse gases are small compared to the far greater threat of massive coal expansion in China, or potential fugitive emission of methane from fracking, or massive deforestation in Indonesia and Latin America, or any number of other major sources of greenhouse gases.

During a trip to Toronto at the end of November, Gore said the exploitation of the tar sands is the «largest source of polluting energy on earth» and represents «one of the most serious threats to the human race.»

The wind might finally be at the back of the landowners and environmentalists who for years have warned that the pipeline, which will carry bitumen from Canada's carbon bomb known as the tar sands, is a threat to fresh water supplies and the climate.

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.

Some opposition to the proposed and increasingly controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline coming from a novel, but ultimately not surprising, source: Writing in The Hill, retired US Army brigadier general Steven Anderson, says the greatest threat to the nation's security is our «over-reliance on oil.»

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- The Canadian government has stepped up lobbying in Europe for its highly - polluting tar sands industry, repeating its threats of trade conflict, a leaked letter shows.