Competition in the Global Oil Market Political Debates Surrounding Tar Sands

May 5, 2009 ... This briefing reviewed the range of costs, benefits, and impacts associated with these fuels, and their implications for policy decisions. Fracked and Tar Sands Oil ... The type of oil being shipped to the Northwest (and how it is extracted) has created a host of new health, safety, and environmental ... Tar sands consist of heavy crude oil mixed with sand, clay and bitumen. Extraction entails burning natural gas to generate enough heat and steam to melt the oil ... Mar 15, 2010 ... Andrew Nikiforuk's Tar Sands is a critical exposé of the world's largest energy project—the Alberta oil sands—that has made Canada one of the ... Mar 19, 2012 ... The article featured the optimistic headline: “New study finds oil sands fuels would cause imperceptible temperature rise.” May 22, 2017 ... Most of the additional oil would be tar-sands crude that would be loaded onto another 348 tankers plying the Salish Sea every year. The San Juan ... Dec 31, 2015 ... Tar sands extraction emits up to three times more global warming pollution than does producing the same quantity of conventional crude. It also ... Jul 15, 2014 ... Canada's boreal forest is one of Earth's major ecological treasures. Yet the region's forests are under threat from logging, hydrodams and mining. Jun 6, 2024 ... April 2020 · Alberta premier Jason Kenney's government has pledged $5bn in support for the Keystone XL tar · A judge has revoked a key permit ... No new underwriting of or investments in companies that generate more than 25 percent of their revenues directly from the extraction of oil from tar sands;. • ...