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 ...

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 ...

Energy industry executives and federal energy specialists insist that tapping the tar sands and shale oil reserves ensures that Americans will continue to enjoy a lifestyle built on choice and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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("Unconventional oil" encompasses oil shale, Canadian tar sands, and the extra-heavy oils of Venezuela - essentially, anything that is not just pumped to the surface.) Spanning some 17,000 square ...

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 ...

And as oil prices slide lower ... considering an official ban on the import of "dirty fuels"—oil shale, liquid coal and tar sands, all of which have high extraction impacts, releasing more ...

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