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The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...
Secure Fuels from Domestic Resources, The Continuing Evolution of America’s Oil Shale and Tar Sands Industries:Profiles of Companies Engaged in Domestic Oil Shale and Tar Sands Resource and Technology ...
TAYLOR McKINNON: The oil shale deposits, in terms of barrels, are larger—in terms of the barrels of oil, are larger than Alberta’s tar sands. They’re not as accessible. And that’s good news.
With cutbacks emerging in all sectors within oil, the potential deaths of tar sands and U.S. shale operations could spell long-term disaster on a global scale ...
Mining and processing tar sands and shale oil, though, requires much higher quantities of water. It takes four to six barrels (124 to 186 gallons) of water to produce one barrel of tar sands oil, ...
Fracking for oil in North Dakota's portion of the Bakken Shale has begun to depress U.S. demand for Canada's dirty oil; in response, new infrastructure projects in Alberta's tar sands, such as the ...
Some call Utah’s vast deposits of tar sands and oil shale, another hydrocarbon resource requiring mining, a “carbon bomb” because of their potential to emit megadoses of climate-altering ...
Oil shale, too, has lured new players including Estonian oil shale giant Eesti Energia. Last year, the state-owned firm acquired three parcels comprising 30,000 acres on the Tavaputs ...
Oil from tar sands and shale does not make that cut. It’s telling that, based on 12-month averages, oil prices today are only some 5% below their all-time peaks, although, ...
But as Canada is to tar sands, Brazil and Estonia are to Kerogen/Oil Shale. For decades, both as a part of the USSR and now, Estonia has had both oil and electricity provided by extracting energy ...
Late 21st-century graduate students of business studying the growing problem of stranded assets will almost certainly focus on the history of Canada's Athabasca Oil Sands (a.k.a. the tar sands).
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