Reject tar sands oil

Winnipeg Free Press;  March 30, 2008 ;     649 words ......import of oil from the tar sands of Alberta in Canada...development of Alberta's tar sands. Unfortunately, recent...estimate that Alberta's tar sands could produce 3.1 million...oil processed from tar sands. The fact that existing...than half of Alberta's tar ...

Iraq war makes costly tar sands development profitable

CCPA Monitor;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......profit from the tar sands (the industry...That year, the United States Energy Information...discovered" oil in the tar sands. It announced...the oil from the tar sands flows directly to the United States, prompting Brian...IHS, to call the tar ...

Double trouble.(NORTH AMERICA)(nuclear reactor to be built in the tar...

Earth Island Journal;  September 22, 2007 ;     692 words ......increasing petroleum development of the tar sands in Alberta could pose one the greatest...has likened extracting oil from the tar sands to junkies find[ing] veins in their toes...whether to build a nuclear reactor near the tar sands to provide electricity for the energy-intensi...

Minister touts Alberta tar sands; Producing oil helps Wisconsin, he says

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 20, 2008 ;     373 words ...The United States has a source of oil nearby...continental shelf regions of the United States, Mel Knight came to Milwaukee...up production of oil from tar sands in Alberta. "It's a tremendous...pieces of mining equipment for tar sands are made by each of the ...

Report: Alberta Mines Imperil Birds; Tar Sands Operations Affect...

The Washington Post;  December 26, 2008 ;     490 words ......forest. In Alberta, that forest lies above tar sands that contain oil reserves second only to Saudi Arabia's. The excavation of the tar sands -- projected to pump $2.4 trillion into...are among about 300 species affected by tar sands mining. The study estimates that over...

Welcome tar sands oil

Winnipeg Free Press;  March 30, 2008 ;     644 words ......from Canada's oil sands. The tar sands hold an estimated 174 billion...Arabia in global reserves. The United States currently obtains one million barrels a day from Canada's tar sands, but with planned investments...extracting heavy oil from tar sands and transporting ...

FUELLING FORTRESS AMERICA: Most of Athabasca tar sands production...

CCPA Monitor;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The Athabasca tar sands of northern Alberta contain an...enormous. Development of the tar sands has already begun, with three...billion is expected to be spent on tar sands development over the next 20...pipeline to fuel the gigantic tar sands projects. Most of the oil to ...

STUPID TO THE LAST DROP: Alberta's tar sands project threatens ecological...

CCPA Monitor;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......THE LAST DROP: Alberta's tar sands project threatens ecological...it separates oil from the tar sands that underlie one-fifth...province. What's more, the United States, not Canada, stands to be...to separate oil from the tar sands, Marsden reports. Manning...oil had ...

Sierra Club seeks moratorium on tar sands development

CCPA Monitor;  June 1, 2006 ;     219 words ......Alberta government should stop all new tar sands project development in the Athabasca...basis for its call for a moratorium. "The tar sands produce the world's dirtiest type of...provincial consultations on a proper tar sands strategy proceed and until a full investigation...

Going green by empowering choice.(public policy in United States )

The Futurist;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......has clearly been a boon to the United States. It fueled the post-World War...very resource that propelled the United States through the twentieth century...in the past 35 years, when the United States and other nations have been subjected...annually, respectively (in the ...

Utah is home to deposits of tar sands, another non-conventional source of...

The Enterprise;  October 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......oil, Utah is also home to deposits of tar sands, another non-conventional source of fuel and energy. Tar sands, sometimes also referred to as oil sands...There are decent-sized deposits of tar ,sands scattered throughout eastern Utah, from...

Tar sands development threatens water supply

CCPA Monitor;  February 1, 2007 ;     179 words ...Voracious water consumption by Alberta's tar sands threatens the quantity and quality of...Sage Centre and World Wildlife Fund. The tar sands operations draw most of their water from...river. Water allocations by Alberta to tar sands projects on the Athabasca now add up...

There's oil in them thar sands! Energy.(Exploiting Canada's tar sands)

The Economist (US);  June 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Could Canada's vast tar sands prove the ultimate anti-OPEC...apiece. In contrast, the United States (which consumes a quarter...trapped in the Athabasca tar sands of Alberta--rock formations...cost of producing oil from tar sands. This has dropped from about...businesses ...

Shell could take nuclear option to mine oil from Canadian tar sands

The Independent on Sunday;  September 9, 2007 ;     350 words ......using nuclear power to operate its controversial tar sands programme in Canada. Tar sands extraction - mining oil from a mixture of sand...reactor near the site of Shell's vast Athabasca tar sands development. The boss of Energy Alberta has...

Gore warns Canadians of lobbying power of tar sands firms

CCPA Monitor;  March 1, 2006 ;     173 words ......about the lobbying power of Alberta tar sands developers with new Prime Minister Stephen...Canada," he said, "was partly about the tar sands project in Alberta. The financial interests behind the tar sands project poured a lot of money and support...