Government Incentives and Regulations

Tar sands are primarily used for producing petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel fuel. The sand is extracted and processed to remove the bitumen, a ... Jul 17, 2013 ... Walking to heal the land isn't just a reaction to the wounds that have been inflicted on our Earth. It is also about forming new, healthy and ... 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. Research and Information Needs for Management of Tar Sands Development. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/19520. Import ... Tar sand refers to loose-to-consolidated sandstone or porous rock impregnated with bitumen, a high viscosity asphaltic material different from conventional ... Median porosity of the tar-sand reservoirs is 14.8 to. 19.8 percent, and median oil saturation is 17.4 to 34 percent. Mobile versus immobile oil in the pore ... Feb 9, 2016 ... The board recently announced it is no longer actively developing those regulations, citing a lack of industry interest and low oil prices. 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 ... Tar sands (also called oil sands) are a mixture of sand, clay, water, and bitumen. ... Bitumen is a thick, sticky, black oil that can form naturally in a variety ... 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 ...