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Industry strives for cleaner oil from oil sands
News Articles | New York Times | Green | Clifford Krauss | May 18, 2010
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[O]il sands — or tar sands, as their detractors like to call them — have a serious image problem, even among fossil fuels.
But the oil industry says it is working on the problem. “We have work to do on that, and we admit that right up front,” said Chris Seasons, Devon Energy’s president for Canadian operations.
Mr. Seasons said that with new technologies, the industry can make oil sands production more efficient and reduce the emissions to a level comparable with conventional oil and gas production.
Environmentalists remain skeptical and say expansion of oil sands production is one more way that oil companies are delaying a future of cleaner, renewable energy like wind and solar. Simon Dyer, oil sands program director at the Pembina Institute, a Canadian environmental organization, said, “At a time when we need to be making deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the idea that our transportation emissions are incrementally getting worse is not a helpful thing.”
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