Improving Efficiency, Reducing Waste, and Enhancing Environmental Performance

Nov 21, 2019 ... Tar Sands are a mixture of mostly sand, clay, water, and a thick molasses-like substance called bitumen. 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 ... 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 ... Oct 25, 2018 ... Canadian tar sands oil producers are losing money on every barrel of oil they dig out. Despite signs earlier this year the industry would “turn profitable in ... 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. Dec 20, 2019 ... ... tar sands. “The world needs affordable, accessible energy to support ... tar sands;; Phase out existing underwriting relationships and ... Mar 19, 2012 ... The article featured the optimistic headline: “New study finds oil sands fuels would cause imperceptible temperature rise.” 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 ... Jun 3, 2024 ... “Naphthenic acids from tailings ponds have been found in surface water and groundwater in the Athabasca oil sands region,” explains Ecojustice ...