Designating Protected Areas and Corridors

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. The tar sands—or oil sands, as the industry refers to them—are a semi-solid form of oil (also called bitumen) mixed with sand and silt. Their extraction has ... A Line in the Tar Sands weaves a holistic story of the history of the tar sands, the growth of the environmental movement, and Indigenous peoples determined to ... Aug 29, 2014 ... However, Canada's boreal forests are disappearing, with logging outfits felling huge swaths, global warming heating up the habitats of species ... 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 ... Oct 5, 2020 ... Environmental ... Indigenous and climate activists are demanding that Liberty Mutual stop insuring and investing in tar sands pipelines. The ... 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 ... Seventy-one out of Europe's 95 refineries are now capable of processing heavy and/or pre-processed crude from tar sands, and have been mapped for the first time ... Extracting tar sands requires the destruction of a giant carbon sink. The Canadian tar sands are a layer of mixed sand, clay, and bitumen (aka asphalt) found 40 ...