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Continuing the use of tar sands oil, Coplon-Newfield said, "could really spell game over for the planet in terms of its impact on carbon emissions." ...
U.S. Oil Sands, which has acquired the rights to produce tar sands at mines on 50 square miles of land between Salt Lake City and Moab, Utah, plans to produce 2,000 barrels of oil per day by the ...
Energy producers are spending $15 billion a year to triple oil production from the bitumen-saturated tar sands of northern Alberta, Canada, which are the largest source of oil imports to the U.S.
Tar sands oil has faced stiff criticism from environmental groups, which say that it’s far dirtier than its Middle Eastern counterpart despite claims from the Canadian government and industry ...
Another Canadian company, U.S. Oil Sands, is also trying to produce oil from Utah tar sands, tapping state trust land leases at PR Spring on the southern end of the basin. Both projects have been ...
A joint effort by Osum Oil Sands and Laricina Energy, the so-called Saleski project mined more than 430,000 barrels of oil between 2011 and 2014 using a technique called steam-assisted gravity ...
Imperial Oil, another tar sands giant, reported earnings of $1.1 billion in 2015, down from $3.8 billion from a year earlier “It’s not going to continue for the long run because the money is ...
Read Our Undercover Correspondent’s First Dispatch from the Tar Sands. The majority of oil-related work happens north of town. Follow Highway 63 for about 20 minutes and you’ll see a sprawling ...
But oil from the tar sands is regulated differently when it comes to taxes. The oil industry pays an 8-cent-per-barrel tax on crude oil produced and imported to the U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- A group of scientists say a lack of publicly available information about the chemicals used to mine fuel from tar sands could hamper efforts to safeguard marine habitats ...
The economic struggles of Canadian tar-sands operations have been in the news for more than a year now, with falling prices and rising supplies making it increasingly difficult to turn a profit on ...
Trains carrying mass loads of heavy crude oil from Canada’s tar sands have begun moving through the Northwest, creating the potential for an oil spill in parts of Oregon and Washington. May 15, 2025 ...
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