Addressing Misinformation and Polarization

Background. ▫ Tar sands (referred to as oil sands in Canada) are a combination of clay, sand, water, and bitumen, a heavy, black, asphalt-like hydrocarbon. In the United States, tar sands resources are primarily concentrated in eastern Utah, mostly on public lands. The in-place tar sands oil resources in Utah are ... Jul 12, 2013 ... Your children to stir up bitumen and then stick their noses over a vent so that they can inhale tar sands fumes. Mar 2, 2015 ... A Canadian National Railways train carrying diluted bitumen (dilbit) from the tar sands in Alberta derailed in northern Ontario, with 29 of the ... Asphaltic rocks or "tar sands" of Mississippian age crop out in north-central and northwest. Alabama at various locations dispersed throughout a ... Jun 17, 2013 ... There has been a fierce battle about the accurate labelling of the greenhouse gas intensity of tar sands extraction, with the European Climate ... A Line in the Tar Sands offers a critical analysis of the impact of the tar sands and the challenges opponents face in their efforts to organize effective ... It takes approximately two tons of tar sands along with another two tones of overburden (containing soil, sand, clay and rock) to yield one barrel of oil. Dec 9, 2020 ... Today's plan updates an environmental assessment issued for the tar sands leases in 2013. If approved, the Bureau of Land Management would ... Oct 21, 2011 ... Mining is done either by surface extraction, heating (with natural gas, made cheaper by fracking), or by pumping hot water into the deposit and ...