Sentences with phrase «water in the tar»

Not exact matches

Today is, not coincidentally, the 21st anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and on the heels of the ad came an announcement from the Coastal First Nations (an alliance of nine nations from the central coast to Haida Gwaii) declaring that»... in upholding our ancestral laws, rights and responsibilities... oil tankers carrying crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands will not be allowed to transit our lands and waters.»

Why boil tar and drill five miles in deep water if we just poked a hole in the ground for so many decades?

West Coast works with First Nations and communities fighting against tar sands pipelines in the courtroom, in boardrooms, on the land and on the water.

Dead sea crossing, moses camp on Mt Sinai, the rock struck from which water flowed, Aarons al; tar to Baal, Noahs, ark, the actual sight of christs crucifiction, Sodom and Gamorrah, all found exactly where, and exactl; y as described in the bible!

if you can lie to yourself with immunity, you might be an atheist if you think the indifferent support your side, you might be an atheist if you don't think at all, you might be an atheist if you are drawn to religious discussions thinking someone wants to hear your opinion, you might be an atheist if you copy paste every piece of crap theory you find, you might be an atheist if you think you are right no matter what the evidence shows, you might be an atheist if you can't hold your water when you think about science, you might be an atheist if you can't write the word God, with proper capitalization, you might be an atheist if you think your view has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you think The View has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you live in a tar paper shack, writing manifestos, you might be an atheist if you think you're basically a good person, and your own final authority you might be an atheist if you think your great aunt Tillie was a simian, you might be an atheist if you own an autographed copy of Origin Of The Species, you might be an atheist if you think that when you die you're worm food, you might be an atheist if you think the sun rises and sets for you alone, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is Charles Darwin when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is you when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if you attend a church but palm the offering plate when it passes, you might be an atheist If think this exhausts all the possibilities of definition, you might be an atheist.

«Participation in environmental water monitoring will help the future management of Tar - Ru Lands and the valuable bird, fish, frog and plant species native to the region,» he said.

In developing the Formula, the Administrator for the District Assembly Common Fund, Irene Naa Torshie Addo, has explained she was guided by the «Basic Needs» approach to development with Health Service, Education Service, Water Coverage and Tarred Roads Coverage serving has key indicators.

If they exist, the objects would have some unusual properties: little or no water, because free oxygen would combine with carbon to make carbon monoxide, and perhaps surfaces covered in gooey tar or layers of superhard carbide compounds.

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

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?

The hunt for extreme oil proceeds apace in the ultradeep waters off the coasts of Ghana and Nigeria, in the sulfur - laden depths of the Black Sea, under the polar ice caps, and in the gummy tar sands of Venezuela's Orinoco Basin and Canada's McMurray Formation.

Oil on Water «This photo was taken at the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, in May 2008.

By applying advanced scientific instruments and computational chemistry, the researchers determined the first steps in benzene, a model tar surrogate, and water's conversion to carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

The Ice Age is coming to an end, and the animals are delighting in their new world: a melting paradise of water parks, geysers and tar pits.

«While the publishing world's US subscription players (Oyster, Scribd, and Kindle Unlimited) remain everyone's favorite punching bags — and as Spotify vs. Apple Music vs. Tidal splinters the user experience in the music world — ebook subscription services across Europe such as Mofibo (Scandinavia), Nubico (Spain), Skoobe (Germany) have to navigate unnecessarily complicated waters, constantly justifying their own positions and dodging the looming tar brush that «subscriptions are bad news» — all because of the actions of others.»

With last autumn, the real preparations began, the storing and packing of grain, and drying of fish, and brewing mead, and catching fresh water from rains and streams in barrels lined with tar, and weaning lambs, and slaughtering sheep too old or sick to cross the ocean with us.

Accessed by the Pont Marengo bridge, jutting out over the shimmering waters of the Canal du Midi, historically, Carcassonne was the first fortress to adopt a «hoardings» system of defence in times of siege, wooden structures were fitted to the upper reaches of the ramparts so that the castle's defenders had extra protection whilst they could lean over the walls and drop rocks, hot tar and other projectiles on the assailants below.

Game description The Ice Age is ending and our subzero heroes return in this action adventure video game set in a melting paradise of water parks, geysers and tar pits.

Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.

The work references calligraphy, graffiti, marks on walls, tar patches, ripples in water and, seemingly, all are bound together through the motion and energy of the entire composition.

In the Pavillon des Sources, an architecture typical of the late 19th century that served as a stall for selling the water and its derived products, Kuri presents a set of sculptures, either office furniture (photocopier, storage closets, folders) covered in layers of tar as though with a second skiIn the Pavillon des Sources, an architecture typical of the late 19th century that served as a stall for selling the water and its derived products, Kuri presents a set of sculptures, either office furniture (photocopier, storage closets, folders) covered in layers of tar as though with a second skiin layers of tar as though with a second skin.

And with the way tar sands oil sinks in water, a tanker or pipeline spill in the area would be devastating for the region.

In the weeks following the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline that spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil (or tar sands diluted bitumen) into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood and lake, the news about the spill was just one depressing story after the next as we learned that wildlife had been oiled, local residents, including children, were becoming sick, contaminated water was pumped into the lake, the media was being intimidated to reduce access and coverage and that Exxon may have known about the spill earlier than they are letting on.

And then there is climate change: Canada's tar sands are significantly higher in greenhouse gas emissions and more energy - and water - intensive than more conventional sources of energy.

1) «Land use changes are a component forcing of AGW» and I thought (according to the IPCC TAR) it was CO2 emissions but at least in your reply you are prepared to admit that CO2 is a secondary effect and that the major GHG is water vapour.

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.

Then there is the whole issue of the original production and extraction of tar sands: violations of First Nations treaties with Canada, cancer causing by - products in waterways, destruction of the Boreal Forest — one of our remaining large carbon sinks, and the energy and water intensive extraction methods.

Most of these high - price reserves (PDF) are on the industry's new frontiers — in the Arctic, deep ocean waters or unconventional sources such as the Alberta tar sands (PDF), where three major projects were deferred in 2014 because of falling oil prices.

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.&raqTar 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.&raquIn 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.&raqtar 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.&raquin downstream communities.»

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.

So many people dedicated immense efforts because of how Energy East would have trampled over Indigenous rights, accelerated climate change, threatened clean water sources, and lock us in the frenzy of tar sands expansion for several more decades.

In rock strata, the anoxic, zones are marked by regions of black as the hydrogen sulfide producing bacteria - filled waters eventually take on the color of tar.

Now, they understand that tar sands — very unlike conventional oil — sinks in water.

But these communities and many, many more across North America — including those affected by tar sands refining, pipelines, and rail transportation, and people living at the source of tar sands extraction in Canada — are standing up and calling for an end to the pipelines, the rail terminals, and the tar sands mining that harms our health, our water, our land, and our climate.

Unless a company has a specific policy in place not to purchase tar sands oil, the company is in practice supporting the destructive tar sands mining industry that is polluting our water, air, communities, and climate.

«This letter puts the biggest corporate consumers of oil on notice that there's no excuse not to invest in cleaner, more efficient fleets, and that it's simply wrong to source oil from the tar sands, which is fouling the land and water in communities across the country, from Maine to Kalamazoo to Utah.»

While tar sands have been in production since the late 1960s, and currently account for about 5 percent of all U.S. gasoline, production has been scaling up — which could have serious consequences for the air, water, and climate.

-- CREDO calls State Dept's EIS on Keystone XL «coward's logic» in statement: «The State Department's environmental assessment is a vehicle for the White House to test the waters to see if the public will buy its false and cynical argument that the Canadian Tar Sands are going to get burned anyway, and so the government's chief climate scientist's assertion that Keystone XL will spell «game over» for the climate may be true but is essentially irrelevant,» said Becky Bond, political director at CREDO.

I remember as a child in Kent in the UK during the 50s & 60s the Tar in the road melting in the summers due to the heat, followed by a major thunderstorm and flooding with cars washed down the streets and man hole covers thrown up by the water.

In solvent assisted production you see, rather than flooding the underground formation with steam to reduce the viscosity of the tar sands bitumen, you flood the formation with a combination of water and polymer solvents to reduce the bitumen's viscosity.

Tar sand itself is made of clay, sand, water and bitumen, which needs to be refined in an extremely energy - and water - intensive process.

Secular Animist, Yes, and Warren Buffett is investing in tar sands, while T. Boone Pickens is investing in wind and buying up as much ground water as possible.

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.

More in the Star More on the Tar Sands: Tar Sands Not Most Destructive Project on Earth, But Very Far From Benign: Royal Society of Canada Canadian Tar Sands Look Like Tolkein's Mordor Says UN Water Advisor

More on the Alberta Tar Sands: 350 More Ducks Killed in Canada's Toxic Tar Sands Tailing Ponds Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth National Geographic Slams Tar Sands - Canadian Politicians Pissed Fossil Fools Gold: Tar Sands & Oil Shale Eco-Impact Explained Canadian Tar Sands Look Like Tolkein's Mordor Says UN Water Advisor Wikileaks Reveals Hushed Concern Over Tar Sands Oil in US State Dept Economic, Environmental Costs of Developing Tar Sands & Oil Shale «Unthinkable»

Extended drought in the US West has made the water needed to make tar sands extraction work a very much more dear and expensive resource.

Tar Sands Projects Responsible for Water Pollution in Alberta's Rivers - Despite Industry Claims to Contrary

Quick aside: Molasses behaves similar to tar sands oil This is, essentially, the same way tar sands oil or diluted bitumen behaves in water.

Oil Shale Development a Climate Change + Water Disaster In case you hadn't heard, developing oil shale is just as bad (if not worse in some ways) from an environmental perspective as tar sandIn case you hadn't heard, developing oil shale is just as bad (if not worse in some ways) from an environmental perspective as tar sandin some ways) from an environmental perspective as 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.»