Non-Energy Applications of Bitumen

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 9, 2020 ... Today's plan updates an environmental assessment issued for the tar sands leases in 2013. If approved, the Bureau of Land Management would ... 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 ... Enbridge, the Canadian oil giant responsible for a massive tar sands oil spill into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan not yet two years ago, now wants to pipe ... 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. Oct 1, 2013 ... This paper examines the widespread criticism of the project from Indigenous and environmental groups, as well as responses to these objections by public/ ... 1) Oil pipeline expansions would encourage and accelerate the terribly destructive process of tar sands mining. Aug 16, 2012 ... Infographic: How Tar Sands Oil Is Produced ... The oil product extracted from Canada's tar sands isn't like conventional crude. Known as bitumen, ... Dec 13, 2013 ... Flint Hills Resources is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, which is privately owned by billionaire right wing activists Charles and David Koch. 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 ...