Respect for Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, and Environmental Stewardship

May 20, 2011 ... Whether tar sands imported into the United States are subject to the excise tax on petroleum imposed by § 4611 of the Internal Revenue Code ( ... Apr 30, 2021 ... Geologist David Hughes calculated that the tar sands retrieved by surface mining has an EROI of about 5:1, and as low as 2.9:1 for tar sands ... 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 ... The resulting campaign successfully educated citizens about the harmful impact of tar sands expansion to our climate, native forests, and First Nations' ... The epicentre of Canada's notorious tar sands, the world's largest industrial project, and arguably the world's least sustainable. Dec 11, 2020 ... What would have been a 2,100-acre tar sands lease in the Uinta Basin near Vernal, Utah is now paused indefinitely. The move came following ... This report will detail why Canadian tar sands are undermining migratory bird protections and why the Interior Department should urge the President to pressure ... 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. 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 ... Asphaltic rocks or "tar sands" of Mississippian age crop out in north-central and northwest. Alabama at various locations dispersed throughout a ...