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 ...

Further development of greenhouse gas-intensive energy sources, including oil shale, tar sands, and coal-fired power plants, is fundamentally incompatible with achieving this goal. If greenhouse gas ...

For another very simple reason. Post-2005 oil production growth in these countries came from high-cost deposits in Canada's tar sands and in America's tight oil plays. New production from these ...

The state of Utah has begun making preparations for its own major tar sands and oil shale extraction projects. According to one U.S. government report, land in the region could hold up to three ...

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 ...

The fate of the Alberta's tar sands mines—and the climate—may come down to the Keystone XL pipeline Red lights are flashing, but Ben Johnson pays them no mind. The long, lean, weathered ...

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 ...

We need only look at Canada to see that oil shale development in the West, like tar sands production in Alberta, would undermine our country’s goal of reducing greenhouse gasses. Eleven years ...

They also hoped to defeat it before it could pave the way for others seeking to mine Utah's abundant deposits of tar sands and oil shale, viewed as "dirty" fossil fuel resources. The PR Spring ...

It said that the bird, which is found on some lands allocated for possible oil shale and tar sands leasing, was warranted for listing under applicable Endangered Species Act provisions ...

The Sierra Club calls tar sands oil "the most toxic fossil fuel on the planet that leaves in its wake scarred landscapes." The Bakken shale oil from North Dakota, derived from hydraulic fracturing ...

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