tar-sands

In an interview, Mr. Speth said the pipeline would be used to transport a type of crude oil—known as tar-sands oil—that would encourage a continued reliance on fossil fuels and emit harmful pollution into the air.

Dozens Arrested at Protest of Oil Pipeline Tennille Tracy 2011

They objected to the type of oil, known as tar-sands oil, TransCanada would be shipping and said potential spills could damage land and water along the pipeline route.

Pipeline Hearing Draws Emotional Pleas Tennille Tracy 2011

Shale and tar-sands are waiting for the technological break-through which will make production both economical and clean.

Allan Abramson: Notes on Energy Sufficiency Allan Abramson 2010

This year ForestEthics petitioned 30 companies to explain the high environmental and social costs of tar-sands oil (which carries three to five time the greenhouse-gas footprint of conventional drilling).

William S. Becker: Climate Action: Part 3 - Taking it to the Streets William S. Becker 2010

Shale and tar-sands are waiting for the technological break-through which will make production both economical and clean.

Allan Abramson: Notes on Energy Sufficiency Allan Abramson 2010

Casey-Lefkowitz says the proposed Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline would carry heavier and more corrosive tarsand crude more than 3,200 kilometers from Canada across the central U.S. - and over the Ogalalla - to refineries in Texas.

Yellowstone River Spill Raises Pipeline Safety Concerns 2011

SB: Canada has been seen in the United States as a resource-rich country, but also one that is significantly exploiting those resources in often environmentally unfriendly ways - e.g. clear-cutting forest, producing oil from tar-sands, which is both energy-intensive and dirty.

Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011

The group persuaded 16 of them to boycott shipping companies that use tar-sands oil, or to at least give preference to ones that don't, U.S. campaign director Aaron Sanger told me.

William S. Becker: Climate Action: Part 3 - Taking it to the Streets William S. Becker 2010

SB: Canada has been seen in the United States as a resource-rich country, but also one that is significantly exploiting those resources in often environmentally unfriendly ways - e.g. clear-cutting forest, producing oil from tar-sands, which is both energy-intensive and dirty.

Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011

Casey-Lefkowitz says the proposed Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline would carry heavier and more corrosive tarsand crude more than 3,200 kilometers from Canada across the central U.S. - and over the Ogalalla - to refineries in Texas.

Yellowstone River Spill Raises Pipeline Safety Concerns 2011