Just as we can’t imagine Britain’s rise to dominance in the capitalist system without coal, it is impossible to imagine the rise of the United States as the 20th century successor of Britain without ...

They are mining and processing tar sands and oil shales, and essentially steaming out the oil, or splintering deep geologic layers of shale to liberate natural gas. Oil companies and the State ...

thanks to shale fracking, oil is a much bigger part of the Canadian economy. The vast majority of Canada’s oil is produced in Alberta. Perhaps surprisingly, the oil sands don’t actually have ...

Top soil and shale strata are then removed (to depths ... it takes large quantities of energy to access tar sands oil. Approximately 14-25% of the energy obtained from tar sands is lost through ...

Karamay formation (T₂k) and Badaowan formation (J₁b) oil sands (OSs) around Karamay have undergone serious ... Cycloalkane constituents of the bitumen from green river shale. Geochimica et ...

Instead of lubricating profits, however, Canada’s tar sands are bunged-up with protests ... An analysis of the top 39 public shale oil companies by Rystad, an energy-data firm, found that ...

U.S. imports of Canadian oil have more than doubled since 2005, with increased tar sands production driving ... particularly pipeline and shale gas expansion.” Within a week of Trudeau’s ...

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 ...

But the shale revolution is starting to reach its ... political opposition and environmental risk. Producing from oil and tar sands had always been a costly enterprise. When prices fell in 2015 ...

Hydraulic fracturing of shale oil and gas can yield quicker returns ... to finance what environmental groups deride as the "tar sands". "The last decade has been dominated by conversations ...

Hydraulic fracturing of shale oil and gas can yield quicker returns on smaller investments ... investors reluctant to finance what environmental groups deride as the “tar sands.” “The last decade has ...