Media Coverage of Tar Sands

Sep 25, 2014 ... The Alberta Tar Sands ... Buried just beneath a layer of muskeg and forest in northern Alberta, Canada, lies a 50,000 square mile reservoir of ... Join Utah Tar Sands Resistance for a camp out on the eastern Tavaputs plateau to check in on the stripmine at PR Springs and the new mine owners. 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. Apr 11, 2019 ... Can Canada develop its climate leadership and its lucrative oil sands too? 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 ... Mar 19, 2012 ... The article featured the optimistic headline: “New study finds oil sands fuels would cause imperceptible temperature rise.” Tar sands mines, and all they bring with them, have arrived in the United States. Tar sands, also known as oil sands, require intensive processing to produce ... 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 ... Social impacts: In the North, we are losing the potential for a traditional land-based economy that needs a healthy forest and clean rivers full of healthy fish ... Tar sand refers to loose-to-consolidated sandstone or porous rock impregnated with bitumen, a high viscosity asphaltic material different from conventional ...