Sentences with phrase «with oil sands company»

Bradford was formerly vice president, legal, with oil sands company OPTI Canada before it was acquired by CNOOC in November 2011.

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Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

The company also said oil sands operations production has benefited from reliable operations at its Firebag and MacKay River plants, but base plant operations dealt with a significant, weather - related outage in January that will cut first quarter output to roughly 400,000 bbls / d.

This has increased pressure on companies with oil sands assets to improve (i.e., reduce) their environmental footprint, and in some cases, to divest such assets.

In July 2008 alone, oil sands companies held a total of 36 meetings with Canadian ministers and government officials, while only seven environmental groups and associations reported lobbying activity.

Protesters fear environmental damage, especially from possible oil spills; are frustrated with oil companies» grip on US politics; and condemn the impacts of tar sands exploitation on the boreal forest and First Nations in Canada.

Both Enbridge with its $ 5.5 - billion Northern Gateway project, and Kinder Morgan with plans to expand an existing West Coast pipeline called Trans Mountain, are working to give oil sands companies access to refineries in China and Asia.

With most of the world's highest quality resources already exhausted, companies are turning to formerly undesirable alternatives such as tar sands oil, which come with higher energetic price tags yet lower retuWith most of the world's highest quality resources already exhausted, companies are turning to formerly undesirable alternatives such as tar sands oil, which come with higher energetic price tags yet lower retuwith higher energetic price tags yet lower returns.

Companies with fleets of cars and trucks have a critical role to play ensuring that as America raises efficiency and embraces renewable fuels, we also turn away from the dirtiest, most carbon - intensive sources of oil — Canadian tar sands.

In July 2013, Storebrand, a major Norwegian pension fund advisor, excluded from its Energy Sector all 13 coal producers and the 6 oil companies with the highest exposure to tar sands «to reduce Storebrand's exposure to fossil fuels and to secure long term, stable returns for our clients...»»

Because until we are sure beyond any doubt that companies will actually fix faulty pipelines, until we know that public health officials will actually protect our children, until we know what we're dealing with and how to clean it up, tar sands oil is just too dangerous.

In an effort to curb carbon emissions, Canadian energy companies have started converting CO2 into products — taking carbon dioxide from processing oil sands, mixing it with wastewater and fed to algae, which then can be turned into cattle feed and other products.

With depressed oil prices, the opportunity for oil companies to expand their reserves through extreme and expensive drilling, like tar sands and deepwater drilling, have fallen off the business plan drafting table.

Meanwhile, oil companies are recklessly developing the tar sands, with plans to increase production to a dangerous level of five million barrels per day or more by 2030, a 1500 per cent increase since 1999.

Their migration route intersects with areas leased to and developed by oil sands companies, including the surface mineable area and its associated facilities, mine pits and tailings ponds.

She reports there are about 960 American companies that support Alberta oil sands activities, with thousands more jobs that could be created if the U.S. would take steps to promote greater oil sands development — such as approving the Keystone XL pipeline.

Just last week, for example, our Upstream Research Company announced that it is licensing ExxonMobil's patented steam injection system and production method, which allows producers to recover more oil from Canada's oil sands with carbon dioxide emissions reduced by up to 10 percent per barrel.

Judge Sandra Allen sided with U.S. Oil Sands and Utah's Division of Water Quality in deciding that the state rightfully granted the Calgary - based company permission to mine and process oils sands without requiring a pollution permit or water monitoring at the PR Spring mining site in eastern Utah.

With All Eyes on Keystone, Another Tar Sands Pipeline Just Crossed the Border «The Keystone XL pipeline may be in political limbo, but that hasn't stopped another Canadian company from quietly pressing ahead on a pipeline project that will ramp up the volume of tar sands oil transported through the U.S.. What's more, the company, Enbridge, is making those changes without a permit, and environmental groups say it is flouting the law.

«Shell's deferral of Pierre River, one of the high - cost oil sands projects that we highlighted in our «Carbon supply Cost Curves» analysis last year, is in line with our belief that companies should cancel capex on high - cost projects in favour of a portfolio of low - breakeven investments in order to protect shareholder value,» said Andrew Grant financial analyst at the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

The reason that the Alberta and Canadian governments, along with the oil companies, desperately want the Keystone XL pipeline is because it will encourage more capital investment in new oil sands projects, effectively locking in a revenue stream for decades.

In 2013 I became involved with a newly formed group of Burnaby residents protesting a plan by Kinder Morgan, a Texas based oil company, to dramatically expand the export of diluted bitumen from the Alberta tar sands to oversees markets through a small marine terminal in Burrard Inlet, just miles from the City of Vancouver.

Martin Ignasiak, a partner in Osler Hoskin and Harcourt LLP's Calgary office, says many of his clients, which include oil sands players and electrical generation companies, prefer to err on the side of caution when it comes to consultation with First Nations, in order to minimize the risk their projects will fail to get approved.

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