Sentences with word «tarsands»

Perhaps laying a 1,200 km, three foot round pipeline from Edmonton to Kitimat, that moves 250,000 gallons of raw tarsand oil a day across 600 creeks and rivers, including some where threatened salmon spawn, is not in the fundamental national interest.

The State Department's «don't worry» environmental impact statement for the proposed Keystone XL tarsands pipeline, released late Friday afternoon, was written not by government officials but by a private company in the pay of the pipeline's owner.

Deepwater drilling, biofuel and extraction from tarsands yield very low energyreturns.

CNOOC vowed to locate its head office for the Americas in Calgary, list shares on the TSX and invest in tarsands research.

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While major protests in the U.S. against the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline have targeted specific infrastructure projects that would lock us into decades of continued fossil - fuel use, they have also shown the power of a united climate movement to effect real policy changes.

TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline would carry 830,000 barrels per day of dirty tarsands from Canada through hundreds of American homes, farms and ranches.

& # 9650 Oilsands Though Canada's oil - from - tarsand sector still has its challenges, 2010 may go down as a turning point.

Suzuki, of course, is a staunch and frequent critic of the Alberta tarsands and a strong advocate of alternative energy.

And so most tarsands extractors (except those who own refineries) are now bleeding cash; many banks have developed nervous twitches; and thousands of workers have found themselves unemployed.

Reacting to the Chiquita company's decision to direct its transportation providers «to avoid, where possible, fuels from tarsands refineries,» the website is urging Canadians to boycott Chiquita bananas and related products.

Now he wants to make China one of our biggest customers of the greenhouse gas - laden tarsand oil.

The project is called the Kearl Module Transportation Project (KMTP) because the equipment will end up at the Kearl tarsands project in Northern Alberta, Canada.

«Will we start making a rapid transition off fossil fuel, or will we double down and find new ways to keep our addiction going, fracking say and tarsands development?»

With the U.S. market now so uncertain, Harper is pushing for Alberta's tarsand oil to go to China, regardless of the risk to our national - environmental interest.

If Keystone XL is approved, TransCanada would have to tear down clean and locally produced energy to make way for its dirty tarsands pipeline.

These efforts took on greater urgency last year after TransCanada Corp.'s efforts to build a tarsands oil pipeline in the U.S. stumbled in the face of intense political opposition there.

Maybe I'm a bit confused but doesn't eccelerating the tarsands have a wee bit of relevance to the environment or am I mistaken?

As Rubin argues, the tarsands can downsize today and avoid more economic pain.

As the world economy stagnates and begins to cut carbon emissions, demand for oil and its most carbon intensive products from the tarsands, Canada's single largest source of carbon pollution, will likely shrink.

In a heartbeat they would have voted to slow down the tarsands years ago with higher royalties and better regulations, but their political masters refused to put on the brakes.

That fire began last year when global oil prices crashed by 40 percent and evaporated billions of investment capital in the tarsands.

«After a string of pipeline victories and over a decade of campaigning on at least three different continents, the Alberta government has finally put a limit to the tarsands.

Today they announced they will cap its expansion and limit the tarsands monster to 100 megatonnes a year.»

Being one of the most liberal areas in the U.S. — there were more than a few cars sporting «Bernie Sanders 2016 ″ bumper stickers — the discussion revolved around climate change and the environmental impact of the tarsands.

Having enjoyed the last week in the sunny Berkeley, California, it felt odd to turn on the car radio to hear the local disc jockeys discussing the tarsands and the merits of a pipeline that would pump unrefined bitumen from Canada to Texas.

This is just one of many ironies of this 28th election in the province that birthed the oil / tarsands (depending on where you stand).

In one lesson, students examined and analyzed editorial cartoons related to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, and discussed the advantages and disadvantages of building a pipeline to ferry crude oil from Alberta's tarsands to the United States.

Fringe groups call it tarsands.

They say the $ 8 billion pipeline expansion encourages ramped up production from the tarsands, and that will increase greenhouse gas emissions at a time when Canada should be reducing them.

Any spill from the tarsands pipeline into the sandy soil on the Allpress farm would probably leak through to their drinking water source, just 14 feet below the surface.