Sentences with phrase «with oil sands development»

Such an approach would be a sea change from the approach currently pursued by Stephen Harper's government, which has pressed ahead with oil sands development and gutted environmental protections of Canada's lakes and rivers, all the while gagging federal scientists to stop the release of data that may contradict the Conservatives» agenda.

Not exact matches

The Panel excluded any discussion of the environmental impacts of oil sands development, although they did allow the consideration of increased oil prices generated by the pipeline on the taxes and royalties associated with forecast future oil sands production.

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

From a strictly legal perspective, the relevant question is not whether there is a sufficient connection to any particular existing or proposed oil sands development or other production activity, and certainly not whether such projects or activities were included in the Terms of Reference (ToR), but rather simply whether the GHGs associated with the production of bitumen that will be transported by the NGP are an «environmental effect» of that project (see NGP Report, Volume II, Appendix 4, Terms of Reference, which defines «environmental effect» very broadly to mean «any change that the project may cause in the environment.»

«Until ongoing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of oil sands are more successful and widespread, the Final SEIS makes clear that, compared to reference crudes, development of oil sands crude represents a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions,» the EPA states in a letter made public Tuesday.

First, the Board had ruled that it would not consider the environmental and socio - economic effects associated with upstream activities, the development of the Alberta oil sands, and the downstream use of oil transported by the pipeline.

Seeing an opportunity to offset some of the emissions from its oil - sands development, the province of Alberta committed Can $ 2 billion (US$ 2.1 billion) to sequestration in 2008 and is now working out agreements with commercial partners on four projects.

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.

From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.

The exhibition will include several of Hart's large, colorful abstractions, many painted in oil with the addition of sand, along with selected early works that prefigure her development toward an abstract voice.

Kate Galbraith has a post about an article in Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper that the country's prime minister, Stephen Harper, will seek a climate - change agreement with President - elect Barack Obama that would protect development of Alberta's oil sands.

We empower local communities to protect themselves from reckless fracking operations, and we partner with leading scientists, financial analysts, and First Nations to stop the expansion of dirty tar sands oil development.

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.

Two consulting firms provided State Department with key analysis of whether the pipeline would speed development of Canada's oil sands.

IHS CERA's new environmental assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline and pipeline - related oil sands development sends a pretty clear message to President Obama as he decides whether to approve the full project's construction: There's not a climate rationale for rejecting the pipeline — and along with it, tens of thousands of U.S. jobs, economic uplift and greater energy security.

Indeed, our analysis supports recent comments in the EPA's review of the State Department's final impact statement that, with oil prices in a sustained range of $ 65 - $ 75, «construction of the pipeline is projected to change the economics of oil sands development and result in increased oil sands production, and the accompanying greenhouse gas emissions, over what would otherwise occur» [2].

Additional escalation of the mining impact occurs as conventional oil mining is supplanted by tar sands development, with mining and land disturbance from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times greater than conventional oil production per unit area [152], but with substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].

Norway, which along with the other Scandinavian countries has been among the most ambitious and successful of all nations in reducing its emissions, nevertheless approves expanded oil drilling in the Arctic and development of tar sands as a majority owner of Statoil [258]--[259].

Despite environmentalists» campaign to end oil sands development, crude from Alberta will be developed with or without the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, says Gary Doer, Canada's ambassador to the U.S..

• Oil sands development associated with the Keystone XL could support 117,000 new U.S. jobs by 2035, according to the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI).

There are certainly a lot of questions with respect to oil sands development, and GHG emissions are but one of them.

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.

I do not agree with the view that preventing new pipelines will do little to slow development of the oil sands or that the development of access to foreign markets for bitumen is inevitable.