| The environmentalists also fear the Canadian natural gas will be used as an energy source for harvesting oil from the Alberta tar sands. |
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| Different deposits yield significantly different chemical compositions ranging from light crudes to heavy viscous tar sands. |
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| Additionally, as Bartlett notes, unconventional fossil fuels, such as heavy oil, tar sands, shale oil, represent an even larger resource. |
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| Two important alternatives to current oil reserves are shale oil and tar sands. |
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| Not so long ago, Neil Young had come up to the tar sands and compared the devastation to Hiroshima. |
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| I have never met someone who would be personally slighted about something like the Athabasca tar sands, but perhaps they are. |
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| Last week the Federal Court said that the environmental assessments being done of the tar sands were full of holes. |
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| Moreover, the production of a barrel of oil extracted from tar sands requires the use of 2.5 to 4 barrels of water. |
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| Also, once land is used for the extraction of tar sands it was practically impossible to reuse it and to replant plants. |
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| Some federalist parties have the temerity to come to Quebec and say that Alberta's tar sands are making us richer. |
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| He is helping triple the tar sands production and rubber-stamping more pipelines that will carry unrefined crude to the U. S. and China. |
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| It would transport bitumen and liquefied natural gas drawn from the tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast, mainly in Texas. |
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| Amortization of tar sands assets is a combination of unit-of-production and straight-line methods. |
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| He determined that there was a very serious impact on the fingerlings downstream of the tar sands facilities. |
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| So even if the credit crunch eases and the oil price steadies, Canada's tar sands may face tougher scrutiny from their main customer. |
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| Sometimes, in the debate on biofuels, we forget that oil is also produced and sometimes it is produced from tar sands. |
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| Water is essential to provide cooling for nuclear power plants, and extracting usable fuels from tar sands requires vast amounts of water. |
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| Oil shale and tar sands produced and combusted directly should be reported in this category. |
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| I have reservations about any reference to drilling in the Arctic or exploration for alternative sources of oil, such as tar sands. |
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| How does the development of the tar sands diminish or enhance decisions to move to a more sustainable energy economy? |
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| What is the Canadian government doing to clean up the tar sands so a situation like the one at Fort Chipewyan will not reoccur? |
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| However, growth in tar sands output will require new pipelines for existing or expanding markets and increased refinery capacity. |
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| Ms. Thomas-Flurer noted her concern that water is threatened by the tar sands development and infrastructure. |
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| We have enormous oil deposits in the tar sands of Alberta, but the difficulty is to find an economic method of reclaiming the oil. |
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| Coal, gas, oil, tar sands and minerals require large amount of water for their development. |
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| This involves burning 600 million cubic feet of natural gas per day to extract the oil from the tar sands. |
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| The engineering company Moretrench is currently testing a 500-feet-deep barrier for tar sands excavation in Alberta. |
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| She tells us how little the federal and provincial governments have done to regulate the tar sands. |
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| The red line is the approximate break-even price of the average tar sands producer. |
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| Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top. |
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| The State Department found that with high oil prices, the tar sands would be mined for oil, pipeline or no. |
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| Deep-ocean wells, tar sands and shale oil are all there, but some of them require the use of nine barrels of oil to drill, mine, process and transport 10 barrels of product. |
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| As co-developer of an upgrading process for tar sands bitumen and heavy oils, he joined PetroCanada in 1981 to participate in the commercial demonstration of the technology. |
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| Madam Chair, I rise on a point of order. Numerous times, when the minister was speaking, the translation was tar sands when in fact it was the oil sands. |
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| As well as being available to countries without tar sands, shale fields or gushers, biofuels can help reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by providing an alternative to releasing fossil-fuel carbon into the atmosphere. |
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| Shortage pressures are also expected to continue for oil and gas well drillers, servicers, testers and related workers due to the large tar sands development projects in Alberta. |
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| The Orinoco River deposits also contain extensive tar sands in the Orinoco oil belt, which may be a source of future oil production. |
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| Therefore, on the one hand we have the non-aboriginal population that continues with environmental impacts that affect us, whether it is the tar sands or tailing ponds, so I am not sure that it is a legitimate argument. |
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| In Canada, BP is involved in the extraction of oil sands, also known as tar sands or bituminous sands. |
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| Why is the government trying to weasel out from environmental controls both here in Canada and in the United States when it comes to the tar sands? |
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| Some American retailers have forsworn fuel from the tar sands. |
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| We are concerned when we see the redirection of moneys away from wind energy and towards tar sands and old fossil fuel solutions and believe this is exactly the wrong direction to be taking. |
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| The family plans to first divest from tar sands commitments. |
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| It looks like a stalling mechanism to get large shareholders on board but from a grass roots level commitments to tackling climate change and continuing with tar sands are incompatible. |
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| Thus the tar sands are poised to become Canada's largest single emitter of greenhouse gases, compounding this country's contribution to global warming. |
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| The greenhouse effect is telling us that, even if we were to find more oil, coal, natural gas, or tar sands to exploit to keep us going on this bender, we would bury ourselves in atmosphere. |
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| My community of Windsor, Ontario is going to be significantly affected by the tar sands, because the refining of that gunk is going to be done across the border in Detroit. |
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| Accounting policies for the company's tar sands operation are the same as those described in this summary of significant accounting policies for the company's crude oil and natural gas operations. |
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| Alberta's stake in greenhouse gas issues is substantial, reflected in an economy that remains focussed on development of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas, and coal, and extraction of oil from extensive tar sands. |
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| As conventional oil and gas production declines, heavy oil and bitumen from tar sands become increasingly important in the energy profiles of Canada and China. |
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| The sun is setting as we pass over the open mines of the tar sands. |
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| This is pretty serious for them, because we know that sticking one's head in the sand, particularly if tar sands are involved, can make the situation worse. |
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| If tar sands are dirty, then coal is dirtier. |
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| This encourages a frantic stampede to extract every fossil fuel through mountaintop removal, longwall mining, hydraulic fracturing, tar sands and tar shale extraction, and deep ocean and Arctic drilling. |
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| Recent tar-sands oil spills such as the Exxon-Mobil pipeline spill in Arkansas in 2013 and the Enbridge tar sands spill in Michigan in 2010 are noted. |
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| Members of Canada's First Nations have criticized BP's involvement in the Canadian project for the impacts tar sands extraction has on the environment. |
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| Once this surge in US energy production was linked to a predicted boom in energy from Canada's tar sands reserves, the results seemed obvious and uncontestable. |
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| Secretary of State John Kerry for a thorough environmental and permitting process before allowing any existing pipelines in the state to transport tar sands oil. |
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| Tar sands crude and shale gas threaten both the quality and quantity of freshwater resources. |
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| Tar sands are a mixture of sand, clay, water and a dense and viscous tar-like form of petroleum called bitumen. |
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| Tar sands oil is slang for bituminous sand, a mixture of sand, clay, water and an extremely gooey form of petroleum known as bitumen, which resembles tar in appearance. |
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