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 ...

Yet it has been steadily degraded, assaulted by deforestation and the extraction of the tar sands in Alberta, Canada — which produces 58 percent of Canada’s oil and is the U.S.’s largest sou ...

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 ...

The feedstock for plastic is extracted from the tar sands just like natural gas, diesel fuel, and asphalt. Big oil sees its future ... action shuts down the extraction of fossil fuels, ensuring ...

Today it costs around $10 to produce a barrel of oil from tar-sands, down 300% from three decades ... mobile nitrogen generation unit. This can extract nitrogen from the air and supply it on ...

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 ...

It's pretty common knowledge - especially if you're the type to regularly visit sites such as AutoblogGreen and its ilk - that it's simply cheaper to drive a mile on electrical power than on gasoline.

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 ...