Sentences with phrase «unconventional fossil»

It has also led them to explore for and develop more carbon intensive unconventional fossil resources such as tight oil, with associated increases in emissions from flaring; thermal enhanced oil recovery, with increased emissions associated with producing steam, and oil sands, with increased emissions associated with extraction, upgrading and refining (Brandt et al. 2010).

Politically, the rest of Canada may continue rushing to all things tar sands and unconventional fossil fuels, but Quebec is a different story: Vancouver Sun reports that Quebec's new natural resources minister has come out swinging against fracking.

The definition of how not to address climate change is to develop unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands.

I concluded that the world would recognize that it had to phase out coal without burning it all, and not develop unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands.

In the last few years, however, a technological revolution in the extraction of so - called unconventional fossil fuels has transformed this situation with breathtaking speed.

Now, people point to the fact that we have oil shale and tar sands, and those are unconventional fossil fuels.

No, he seems to mean that if we allow the Keystone XL to set a precedent — that we aim aim to develop dirtier, more expensive, unconventional fossil fuels instead of renewable sources — then it will be game over for the climate system as we know it.

I interview the venerable Dr. James Hansen about the dangers of tar sands, unconventional fossil fuels, and how to solve the climate crisis.

I had a chance to speak with Hansen in the midst of the action, and he took a moment to explain why tar sands represent «a critical juncture» for our future, why unconventional fossil fuels are so dangerous, and how our politics could feasibly fight climate change.

After all, assuming substantial use of unconventional fossil fuels (UFFs) in the BAU scenario, suggests a certain amount of insensitivity to price (assuming UFFs are significantly more expensive than conventional fossil fuels).

The draft of the law states that exploration as well as production of «unconventional fossil fuels» is forbidden.

We need to stop using them long before they run out: particularly, before the worldâ $ ™ s massive reserves of coal and unconventional fossil fuels are tapped.

Government plans that include serious restrictions on the use of coal and unconventional fossil fuels have a chance at being compatible with avoiding dangerous climate change, while those that treat this as a side issue do not.

Estimates of the carbon content of all fossil fuel reservoirs including unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale and various gas reservoirs that can be tapped with developing technology [114] imply that CO2 conceivably could reach a level as high as 16 times the 1950 atmospheric amount.

It also means putting a stop to the dash for unconventional fossil fuels like shale gas that we are witnessing around the world.

Europe is opening its doors to dirty and dangerous unconventional fossil fuels, Friends of the Earth Europe and Food & Water Europe said today.

None of the models presented at the session included carbon dioxide emissions from unconventional fossil fuels like tar sands, methane hydrates or oil shale.

The only solution is to cut off the coal source (and unconventional fossil fuels).

And it would be foolhardy to develop unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands.

In addition, the unconventional fossil fuels (oil shale, tar sands, methane hydrates) must be left largely untouched or the carbon dioxide captured and stored.

Friends of the Earth Europe and Food & Water Europe campaign against the extraction of unconventional fossil fuels, including shale gas.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

The fee for unconventional fossil fuels, such as oil from tar sands and gas from hydrofracking, should include carbon released in mining and refining processes, e.g., methane leakage in hydrofracking [245]--[249].

Responsible policymaking requires a rising price on carbon emissions that would preclude emissions from most remaining coal and unconventional fossil fuels and phase down emissions from conventional fossil fuels.

This dash for unconventional fossil fuels is taking place at the expense of the interests of local communities, workers and the environment.

The second figure shows that if coal emissions were thus phased out between 2010 and 2030, and if emissions from unconventional fossil fuels such as tar shale were minimized, atmospheric CO2 would peak at 400 - 425 ppm and then slowly decline.

Jeremy Grantham, a billionaire fund manager who oversees $ 106bn of assets, said his company was on the verge of pulling out of all coal and unconventional fossil fuels, such as oil from tar sands.

The climate movement is pointing out that unconventional fossil fuel extraction techniques (fracking, tar sands excavation, deep - water drilling, mountaintop removal coal mining) are leaving or will leave toxic wastes and scars on the landscape as the fossil fuel industry gouges and lacerates the earth in search of combustible fossil resources.

With their decision to include gas diversification, nuclear and unconventional fossil fuels (disguised under the terms «low carbon» and «indigenous») EU leaders are not matching their promise to cut emissions with action to transform Europe's energy system, says Friends of the Earth.

Chris Nelder had an article in The Atlantic a few months ago saying that Japan (and everyone else) should forget about developing unconventional fossil energy like methane hydrates, and should focus on renewables instead.

Quantitative policy implications have been defined: coal emissions must be phased out over the next 20 years, and unconventional fossil fuels, such as tar sands and oil shale, must remain undeveloped.

First, we must phase out the use of coal and unconventional fossil fuels except where the CO2 is captured and sequestered.

As recoverable oil reserves dwindle, there will be increasing pressure to convert coal to liquid fuels as well as exploit unconventional fossil fuels like methane hydrates, tar sands, and oil shale.

Absent some crash programs for renewables (or temporary reprieve via unconventional fossil fuels), civilization must get by on a small fraction of the energy it now uses (and in far less convenient forms).

Tar Sands and Unconventional Fossil Fuels In a previous post «Silence Is Deadly» I wrote, «The environmental impacts of tar sands development include: irreversible effects on biodiversity and the natural environment, reduced water quality, destruction of fragile pristine Boreal forest and associated wetlands, aquatic and watershed mismanagement, habitat fragmentation, habitat loss, disruption to life cycles of endemic wildlife particularly bird and caribou migration, fish deformities and negative impacts on the human health in downstream communities.»

Now, I'll illustrate the emissions scenario from potential burning of tar sands oil and other unconventional fossil fuels (UFF) as contrasted with conventional fossil fuels (oil, gas, and coal).

Figure 1 helps make clear why the tar sands and other unconventional fossil fuels ought not to be developed and burned.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking comments from industry and academia on a draft report outlining domestic unconventional fossil energy resource opportunities and associated technology applications, in support of an overall strategy for the further development of these resources.

Immediately repeal existing tax breaks for fossil fuel exploration and production, and halt efforts to extend and expand tax credits for unconventional fossil fuel production technologies, like carbon capture and storage and enhanced oil recovery.

«The principal requirement is that coal emissions must be phased out by 2030 and unconventional fossil fuels, such as tar sands, must be left in the ground.»

An overwhelming objection is that exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts... [I] f emissions from coal are phased out over the next few decades and if unconventional fossil fuels including tar sands are left in the ground, it is conceivable to stabilize earth's climate.

The game - changer is «unconventional fossil fuels,» much of it trapped in shale — rock that often contains oil or gas.

U.S. and Canadian governments must agree that the unconventional fossil fuels, tar sands and tar shale, will not be developed.

To achieve these reductions they propose phasing out coal - fired power stations by 2030 and scaling down the use of unconventional fossil fuels like tar sands.

It would make it much harder for countries to ban or impose strong regulations on fracking for shale gas and other unconventional fossil fuels, for fear of having to pay millions in compensation: http://www.foeeurope.org/no-fracking-way-report-060314

Shale gas drilling has been a headline - making and contentious political subject that features prominently in the rhetoric of politicians seeking votes, and Merkel's government in February unveiled a new draft law that permits development of the unconventional fossil fuel through fracking, albeit with conditions.

We can not burn all of the fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal and unconventional fossil fuels such as tar shale and tar sands) and release the CO2 into the air without creating a different planet.

Two fossil fuel facts define the basic actions that are required to preserve our planet's climate: (1) it is impractical to capture CO2 as it is emitted by vehicles (the mass of emitted CO2 is about three times larger than the mass of fuel in the tank), and (2) there is much more CO2 contained in coal and unconventional fossil fuels than in oil and gas.

But it is also clear that, absent a price on carbon emissions, as the price of energy rises, the amount of economically extractable fossil fuels increases, including unconventional fossil fuels.

What we're trying to do is send a message to stop exploitation of unconventional fossil fuels — which extends to new aggressive coal mining, and also to fracking the planet for shale gas.