Promoting Responsible Energy Development The Potential for Sustainable Development in the Oil Sands Region

Apr 23, 2013 ... 90 percent of the tar sands crude that flows through it will be processed near an embattled Houston neighborhood called Manchester. 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 ... 1) Oil pipeline expansions would encourage and accelerate the terribly destructive process of tar sands mining. 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 ... This report will detail why Canadian tar sands are undermining migratory bird protections and why the Interior Department should urge the President to pressure ... 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 ... Mar 15, 2010 ... Andrew Nikiforuk's Tar Sands is a critical exposé of the world's largest energy project—the Alberta oil sands—that has made Canada one of the ... A Line in the Tar Sands weaves a holistic story of the history of the tar sands, the growth of the environmental movement, and Indigenous peoples determined to ... Seamlessly combining travelogue, sophisticated political analysis, and ecological theory, speaking both to local residents and to leading scholars, the authors ... Dec 5, 2013 ... Crude oil from the Alberta tar sands and western US oil fields is increasingly being hauled by railroad. Critics warn that this development poses a threat.