Sentences with phrase «using tar sands»

«Using tar sands and oil shale as energy sources while ignoring climate disruption, air pollution, water pollution, resource depletion, and conservation measures is like pissing in the wind.»

Over the past year, corporations have come under increasing public pressure to stop using tar sands oil.

This week 58 groups representing millions of Americans and Canadians delivered an open letter to many of the largest North American corporations asking them to reduce or eliminate their use of fuel from refineries using tar sands.

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

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Climate change, driven by use of fossil fuels like tar sands, is causing extreme weather events around the globe.

He used the term «tar sands,» one the advocates of Canada's bitumen sector have long argued is, by itself, biased against the «oil sands.»

They point to an article that you wrote in March, I think, of 2012 in Policy Options, where you basically said, dirty oil, the tar sands it's called, dirty oil and the future of our country, where you argue that the development of the, as you use the word, tar sands, it's become a political term, by the way, as you know, is basically not necessarily good for the country, in fact it takes jobs away in the manufacturing sector of Ontario.

Appel says a modified version of thermal depolymerization could be used to inject steam into underground tar - sand deposits and then refine them into light oils at the surface, making this abundant, difficult - to - access resource far more available.

Human emissions of the potentially harmful trace metal vanadium into Earth's atmosphere have spiked sharply since the start of the 21st century due in large part to industry's growing use of heavy oils, tar sands, bitumen and petroleum coke for energy, a new Duke University study finds.

For every barrel of extra oil obtained from tar sands as a result of the pipeline, global oil consumption would increase by 0.6 barrels, because the extra oil would lower oil prices and encourage people to use more.

ExxonMobil admitted that the pipeline had been used to transport a molasses - like form of crude extracted from tar sands in Canada.

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.

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.

Shell states that tar sands are less damaging that coal: Well since when was coal and oil used to the same ends unless they are talking about widespread adaption of CTL technology which could happen in some countries with large scale coal rserves I guess but even I doubt that CTL projects will scale to 3 — 5 mbpd which is the projected output of Albertas oil sands come 2030.

What you do see is a lot of oil shale and tar sands use.

Yet governments and industry are rushing into expanded use of fossil fuels, including unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, shale gas extracted by hydrofracking, and methane hydrates.

oil is getting more difficult to get, fracking or deep offshore are not environmentally friendy neither tar sands are, so using oil as efficiently as possible is a responsible choice.

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He used sand, tar, charcoal, glass, and varnish to paint cruel portraits of the intellectuals and writers of the 1940s, depicting them like caricatures of monsters.

It also makes some false solutions look a lot more appealing to the public, like liquid coal or deforestation diesel, while providing the incentive to use «unconventional oil» such as Canadian tar sands or Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil.

I wonder if that briefing will extend to the effect that ramping up tar sands oil production in Alberta using Alaskan natural gas will have on global warming?

While options remain open (the possibility of doing more upgrading in Alberta and the use of existing pipelines and rail transport to the US) nixing KXL will be a significant impediment to accelerated development of the tar sands in the medium term and an increase in the chance that the Athabasca bitumen will stay in the ground for ever.

Michael Levi (and others) argue that the tar sands oil will be developed regardless of what the U.S. decides on Keystone XL — if we don't use, it someone else will — but this overlook the very serious opposition to other pipeline proposals in Canada.

Jeff could give an encore performance using a similar gallon jug of tar sands from Alberta, Canada.

Broadly stated: if you reject a lease and take a large portion of a commodity (here coal, but it could have been natural gas, tar sands, etc.) off the market, you decrease the supply, increase the cost, and, over the long term, decrease the use of that commodity.

We also have the battle over the use of Canada's tar sands oil, Banksy's latest, and more.

Vermont residents voted to oppose the use of an existing pipeline for the transportation of Canadian tar sands oil.

In a smart recap of the controversy over tar sands oil, Maddow uses the Mayflower oil spill as a lead - in to a discussion on the tar sands oil spill on the Kalamazoo River oil spill, which has become the most expensive oil spill in US history with cleanup costs surpassing $ 765 million dollars.

Moreover, we should avoid now economically (but not ecologically) feasible widespread use of CO2 dirty technologies: coal - to - liquid, gas - to - liquid, oil shales or tar sands... nice said, worse done...

Now with the boom in domestic supply we are left to bemoan the use of hydraulic fracking and tar sands.

How am I, with relatively more education and money (though no more influence), to tell BP that a.) using Canadian tar sands is a really bad idea and b.) I don't like the fact that refining said tar sands will throw 40 % more CO2 into the Midwestern air in coming years, so stop it already?

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.

That is of course happening with tar sands whereby natural gas is used to process the kerogen.

According to Salon.com, which obtained over 300 emails of personal messages between lobbyists and Canadian officials, the CEA is part of a sophisticated public affairs strategy designed to manipulate the U.S. political system by deluging the media with messaging favorable to the tar - sands industry; to persuade key state and federal legislators to act in the extractive industries» favor; and to defeat any attempt to regulate the carbon emissions emanating from gasoline and diesel used by U.S. vehicles.

Hall, who wasn't involved in Hughes» study, thinks the EROI for oil sands would fall closer to 1:1 if the tar sands» full life cycle — including transportation, refinement into higher quality products, end use efficiency and environmental costs — was taken into account.

Canadians are not dying to work on the tar sands project, it is mainly for the 1 % who are taking environment and people for granted and are using propaganda to convince the 99 % that they are doing good for the society.

Human emissions of the potentially harmful trace metal vanadium into Earth's atmosphere have spiked sharply since the start of the 21st century due in large part to industry's growing use of heavy oils, tar sands, bitumen and petroleum coke for energy, a new Duke University study published in the Proceedings... Read more →

Environmentalists did compliment Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's team for acknowledging this time around that oil mined from tar sands has significantly higher heat - trapping gas emissions than conventional oil used in the United States.

It expanded extraction using hydrofracturing in tar sands to increase activity in offshore oil drilling all over the world, thereby maximizing its rate of fossil fuel extraction and processing.

Imperial Oil, a wholly owned subsidiary of Exxon Mobil hopes to use Montana as a conveyer belt for massive tar sands mining equipment manufactured in South Korea and headed to Alberta, Canada.

For example, the victims of massive tar sands exploitation (immediate victims who are sick and dying, and having their food sources tainted) need advocates, and she has used her best abilities to do what she can.

McKitrick used MM0X to sustain the lobbying of the Fraser Group on behalf of the tar sand industry in Ottawa to influence the Canadian government to not merely drop out of but also actively sabotage Kyoto in international talks, while also subsidizing and using its full diplomatic weight to promote tar sands.

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.

On the contrary, Figure 1 is a conservative estimate of potential emissions from tar sands because: the economically extractable amount grows with technology development and oil price; the total tar sands resource is larger than the known resource, possibly much larger; extraction of tar sands oil uses conventional oil and gas, which will show up as additions to the purple bars in Figure 1; development of tar sands will destroy overlying forest and prairie ecology, emitting biospheric CO2 to the atmosphere.

Using the courts, political pressure, and grassroots power, we're fighting to keep dirty tar sands oil in the ground.

Consequently, the policy encourages the use of better biofuels, biogas, and electricity, while disincentivizing dirtier sources, such as tar sands.

Using less oil — and transitioning to cleaner transportation technologies — would help decrease the need for unconventional energy sources like tight oil or tar sands.

This conclusion was used as a basis for evading essential questions about the implications of full - scale development of the tar sands for greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

James Jones used his time on the podium to promote the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which another James — retired NASA climatologist James Hansen — once called a «fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet.»

Secretary Kerry should not use the SEIS to duck the significance of the U.S. National Interest Determination for whether, or how much, of what has been termed the tar sands «carbon bomb» stays in the ground or is ultimately added to the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide.