Tar Sands

Two weeks ago, for instance, a Chinese company bought a $4.6 billion stake in Alberta's Tar Sands, which is among the world's dirtiest sources of oil.

CounterPunch 2010

The first is whether Tar Sands oil is all that bad, and whether it alone will doom the planet as leading climate science authority Jim Hanson suggests.

John Fullerton: Ending the Keystone Debate John Fullerton 2012

The first is whether Tar Sands oil is all that bad, and whether it alone will doom the planet as leading climate science authority Jim Hanson suggests.

John Fullerton: Ending the Keystone Debate John Fullerton 2012

Deciding not to expand Tar Sands production when the challenge is how to decide which existing resources to strand in the ground, and how to share the consequent financial and social burdens, will be one of the easier of these decisions.

John Fullerton: Ending the Keystone Debate John Fullerton 2012

Unless we solve the technical challenge of carbon sequestration, a feat that appears to be fading from the imagination of even the technology optimists, then even before the expansion of Tar Sands production, the world already has proven reserves in the process of coming out of the ground in the decades ahead that exceed our carbon budget by a factor of five times.

John Fullerton: Ending the Keystone Debate John Fullerton 2012

Deciding not to expand Tar Sands production when the challenge is how to decide which existing resources to strand in the ground, and how to share the consequent financial and social burdens, will be one of the easier of these decisions.

John Fullerton: Ending the Keystone Debate John Fullerton 2012

Unless we solve the technical challenge of carbon sequestration, a feat that appears to be fading from the imagination of even the technology optimists, then even before the expansion of Tar Sands production, the world already has proven reserves in the process of coming out of the ground in the decades ahead that exceed our carbon budget by a factor of five times.

John Fullerton: Ending the Keystone Debate John Fullerton 2012

The first is whether Tar Sands oil is all that bad, and whether it alone will doom the planet as leading climate science authority Jim Hanson suggests.

John Fullerton: Ending the Keystone Debate John Fullerton 2012

Deciding not to expand Tar Sands production when the challenge is how to decide which existing resources to strand in the ground, and how to share the consequent financial and social burdens, will be one of the easier of these decisions.

John Fullerton: Ending the Keystone Debate John Fullerton 2012

Unless we solve the technical challenge of carbon sequestration, a feat that appears to be fading from the imagination of even the technology optimists, then even before the expansion of Tar Sands production, the world already has proven reserves in the process of coming out of the ground in the decades ahead that exceed our carbon budget by a factor of five times.

John Fullerton: Ending the Keystone Debate John Fullerton 2012