Ensuring Accountability for Environmental Performance The Challenges of Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Tar Sands Planning and Operations

Seeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises. Apr 11, 2019 ... Can Canada develop its climate leadership and its lucrative oil sands too? This report will detail why Canadian tar sands are undermining migratory bird protections and why the Interior Department should urge the President to pressure ... May 5, 2009 ... This briefing reviewed the range of costs, benefits, and impacts associated with these fuels, and their implications for policy decisions. 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 ... 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. Oil shale and tar sands development destroys species habitat, wastes enormous volumes of water, pollutes air and water, and degrades and defiles vast swaths of ... Oil Sands/Tar Sands. Tar sand deposits of eastern Utah. Utah's oil sand resource is the largest in the United States. The deposits are located mainly in two ... 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 ... Tar sands are mined and processed to extract bitumen, which is then refined into oil. Two tons of tar sands are required to produce one barrel of oil. This ...