As the pressure intensifies to produce more tar sands oil, including in the United States, the Center is stepping up to keep it in the ground. In early 2014 we launched an aggressive, coordinated ...

The Center seeks to prevent any oil shale or tar sands development on public lands, including the unacceptable extraction and combustion of oil, the consumption of water and energy attending that ...

The sands contain the second-biggest store of oil in the world. They are estimated to hold 175 billion barrels of oil. Only Saudi Arabia holds more. But it is tricky - and costly - to extract oil ...

Tar sands DEFINITION: A a combination of clay, sand, water and bitumen which can be mined and processed in order to extract oil.The greenhouse gas emissions for tar sand extraction and processing are ...

The European Union failed to label oil produced from tar sands ... "This vote further delays a decision on tar sands, while tar sands extraction continues, causing irreversible damage to the ...

But calling them "tar" pits or "tar" sands is misleading — the thick ... what's needed to heat a home for four days. Additionally, oil-sand extraction and processing operations were responsible ...

The 600,000 barrels of Western Canada Select (WCS) heavy blend crude, is being shipped by the Spanish oil company ... the emissions from tar sands’ energy-intensive extraction process - and ...

s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline Wednesday, a project that would have carried oil 1,700 miles from the tar sands of Canada to refineries in Port Arthur, Texas. Hari Sreenivasan ...

I spent a week in the Athabasca oil sands last month and what I saw was a truly massive operation that's driven by the demand for something we all use every day. The Athabasca sands hold the ...