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"It take 3 to 4 barrels of water to produce the single barrel of oil that is extracted from the tar sands which clear shows the exploitation of natural resources." (Total 2017, para3) Recently the people of Alberta voted for a change and got a progressive majority government that is not only acknowledging the urgent need to address our ...
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By situating the bitumen of Alberta's tar sands within the context of the strategic geopolitics over oil, Marsden demonstrates that in recent years tar sands development has been steered as much by transnational demand for bitumen as it has by domestic circumstances.
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Albany, NY — . In the face of a court challenge from a broad coalition of environmental and community groups and massive community opposition, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today halted Global Companies' proposed expansion of its massive Albany oil train facility to handle tar sands oil. Citing project changes, new information, questions about the project's ability ...
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Nov 21, 2021Fossil Fuels Canada's Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land and People Oil companies have replaced Indigenous people's traditional lands with mines that cover...
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Tar Sands Challenges - Oil Change International Here are some of the factors driving the industry to support tar sands oil. It's big. With 169 billion barrels of proven bitumen reserves, there are big profits to be made. Although tar sands is challenging to extract, high oil prices help to guarantee profits. It's cheap for refiners.
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Shale oil, for instance, requires more energy to be extracted but does not require a different processing than conventional crude oil. Bitumen (extra-heavy tar sands in Canada and Venezuela) takes a lot of energy to be extracted, contains high levels of imbedded carbon and heavy metals, and requires intensive treatment before it can be refined.
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The tar sands mining procedure releases three times the CO2 emissions as regular oil production and is slated to become the single largest industrial contributor in North America to Climate Change. The tar sands are already shown to have the second fastest rate of deforestation on the planet behind the Amazon Rainforest Basin.
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Jan 18, 2021The pipeline, originally expected to cost about $8 billion, was to carry about 830,000 barrels a day of crude oil, virtually all of it coming 1,210 miles from the tar sands to Steele City, Neb.
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Yet approved tar sands production would surpass five million barrels a day—a fact that NASA climatologist James Hansen calls "game over for climate change.". Of course, the true challenge is ...
Get priceThere's more: "The E.P.A. estimates that the greenhouse gas emissions from tar sands oil — even without counting the destruction of forests that sequester carbon — are 82 percent greater than those...
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A new report by the Stockholm Environment Institute describes the economics clearly: when factoring in the effects of new tar sands output on the global supply and demand balance, "for each barrel of Canadian oil produced, global oil consumption would increase between 0.2 and 0.6 barrels compared to if Canada did not produce the oil."
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Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world's most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and ever
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Jan 21, 2009Activists push policy change for oil pipeline Environmental groups are hoping the delay of a major pipeline project that would tie Quebec and Ontario consumers to oil from the Alberta tar sands ...
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An important difference between oil sands and oil shale is that oil shale must be heated to a much higher temperature (near 900 degrees Fahrenheit) in order to extract and process the hydrocarbon; oil sands will begin to liquefy at approximately 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The full extent of current and planned oil sands transport by rail is unknown. During our assessments, we found critical gaps in the current oversight, rules and regulations, contingency planning requirements, and response capacity to address the increasing transport of oil sands products.
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salt lake city— a coalition of conservation groups on july 22 filed a "request for agency action" challenging the utah department of air quality's june 21 approval of a new oil refinery in green river, utah that would affect local and regional air quality and facilitate oil shale and tar sands mining in the colorado river basin's green river .
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A stunning new international analysis shows increasingly affordable wind and solar power and electric vehicles crushing oil on price and efficiency—even as Canadian fossil analysts continue to predict future growth for tar sands/oil sands production, and industry boosters tout their "marathon" effort to convince investors to take their product seriously.
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A Midwest Pipeline Rupture Raises Questions about Tar Sands Risk EPA and State Department Square Off on Tar Sands Pipeline Tar Sands Oil Production, An Industrial Bonanza, Poses Major Water Use Challenges Pipeline Ties Detroit Refinery to "Dirtiest Source of Fossil Fuels" Natural Gas Coal Production Coal Sucks Water Tar Sands Tar Sands' Soiled Oil
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Tar sands crude oil is exempt from paying into America's Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. This is worth over $375 million to the tar sands industry between 2010 and 2017. The exemption exists despite tar sands pipelines spilling more often than pipelines carrying conventional oil and these spills being more difficult and expensive to clean up.
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Citing Maine's 'home rule authority' to protect public health, the small city took on Big Oil, which lined up behind a company challenging its tar sands ban. By Sabrina Shankman Inside Climate News news story A federal judge
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First Nation challenges Shell tar sands expansion October 5, 2012 Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation says provincial government and Shell have violated their treaty rights. "We're going to fight your projects tooth and nail." Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation spokesperson Eriel Deranger speaks out against the oilsands at a recent event in Vancouver.
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The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers — the tar sands' main lobbying arm — have confirmed that oil companies overlooked the section at first.18 But only at first. In February 2008, Canada's then-Ambassador to the United States, Michael Wilson, sent at letter to the U.S. Secretary of Defense about S. 526.
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Study contradicts Alberta government and industry claims that pollutants are from natural sources and not from the expanding production of oil from tar sands Canada's rapidly expanding tar sands industry is causing the toxic pollution of its rivers, but the government of Alberta continues to deny there is a problem.
Get priceTar sands oil emits 17 percent more greenhouse gas emissions from development to combustion than the average barrel of crude, according to the U.S. State Department. In recent years, the resource...
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Tar sands oil upgrading technology Technology for processing heavy crudes and bitumen-derived materials such as synthetic crude oil are examined, along with the challenges they present to primary and secondary refinery conversion units Donald B Ackelson UOP LLC Download Complete Article Viewed : 4133 Article Summary
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By David Biello on April 17, 2013. The Keystone XL Pipeline would move enough tar sands oil to result in another 181 million metric tons of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere yearly. A new ...
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In July of 2010, an Enbridge-owned pipeline spilled oil -- which later turned out to be diluted bitumen from Canadian tar sands -- into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. Because the heavier elements of the oil became submerged in the river, response-related boat traffic trying to remove the oil ended up crushing freshwater mussels.
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A decision in favor of the company could effectively open a gateway for the flow of carbon-heavy tar sands oil to one of the East Coast's largest oil ports. For other cities seeking to restrict oil and gas activities, South Portland's four-year fight to fend off the oil industry offers perhaps a cautionary tale.
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Feb 20, 2012The EU proposal is to label tar sands oil as causing 22% more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional oil on average. The increase results from the energy needed to blast the bitumen from the ...
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However, things changed as other oil deposits began to run dry and energy prices rose in the early 2000s. By 2006, some of the world's largest energy companies were mining the tar sands for bitumen oil. As production ramped up, so did the costs for both people and animals. Tar sands development affects wildlife at every stage.
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About The Report: Big Oil is spending millions of dollars trying to greenwash the tar sands, Canada's fastest growing source of greenhouse gas pollution. A new report, Reality Check: Climate Change and the Tar Sands, sets the record straight on industry claims when it comes to global warming pollution. The report counters claims by industry ...
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Canadian oil producers have roared back from President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline with a scheme to send hundreds of ...
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Neubauer will demonstrate the time-efficient and environmentally friendly effects of PetroLuxus (TM) on Utah Tar Sand samples from the Asphalt Ridge region. Independent third party analysis of...
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These bans take on new significance now that the first ocean-going tanker was recently filled with Canadian tar sands oil, which arrived by rail in Portland, Oregon and is destined for China. The first wave of oil trains in North America resulted in several major oil spills and the deaths of 47 people in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec.
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Line 3 to Begin Flow of Dirty Tar Sands Oil Friday | Earthjustice Press Room September 29, 2021 Line 3 to Begin Flow of Dirty Tar Sands Oil Friday The Biden administration still has time to reverse course and conduct required analysis Contacts Keith Rushing, Earthjustice, (757) 897-2147 Moneen Nasmith, Earthjustice, (212) 845-7384
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Tar sands mining operations withdraw 2-4.5 barrels of fresh water from the river for every barrel of oil they produce. Current operations are permitted to withdraw more than 349 million cubic metres of water per year, a volume equivalent to the amount required by a city of 2 million people.
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Oil from tar sands replaces diminishing supplies from conventional oil reserves, and provides petroleum imports from America's most important trading partner. But critics assert that developing tar sands and other unconventional reserves will require more water, produce more climate-changing emissions and ruin more land as well as natural ...
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If oil companies carry through on their proposals, a network of old gas and oil pipes converted to move tar-sands dilbit will dot maps through the United States. Many of the pipes were built in the late 1940s and early 1950s. "I think it's more widespread than people think," Kuprewicz said.
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Many "energy experts" have said that a Manhattan tar sands project could prevent oil decline in the future. But that's not likely. Here are a few reasons why: Reaching 5 /d will get increasingly (energy) expensive, because there's only enough natural gas to mine 29% of tar sands (and limited water as well).
Get priceThat is the equivalent of placing an extra 5.6 million cars on the roads. But, for eight days in October, what Williams chose to focus on a rather less publicised problem associated with tar sands: the disruption to the lives and traditions of the indigenous First Nations people of Alberta. Jody Williams and team follow the path of the Northern ...
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