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Staying Hooked on a Dirty Fuel: why Canadian tar sands pipelines are a bad bet for the United States
By: National Wildlife Federation
Published: June 2010
Staying hooked warns that a massive 2,000 mile five-state proposed tar sands crude pipeline -- Keystone XL -- would use safety shortcuts, substandard materials and unsafe practices that would create a high risk of ruptures that would endanger rare species, water supplies, and rancher livelihoods
Tagged with: pipeline, keystone xl, oil demand, wildlife, national wildlife federation
Dirty Oil, Dirty Air: Ottawa’s broken pollution promise
By: Environmental Defence Canada
Published: May 2010
Air pollution in the tar sands regions was at levels above what the Alberta Government considers safe, known as ‘exceedances’, 1,556 times in 2009,
Tagged with: environmental defence canada, air pollution
Canada’s Oil Sands—Shrinking Window of Opportunity
By: CERES | RiskMetrics Group | Yulia Reuter, Doug Cogan, Dana Sarasean, Mario Lopez Acala, Dinah Koehler
Published: May 2010
Oil sands production is expensive and faces significant risks associated with its environmental and social impacts. This report concludes that if the industry does not take steps to aggressively manage these risks, its long-term growth is in doubt.
Tagged with: investor risk, ceres
Tracking Tar Sands Crudes: Gulf Coast Refineries Taking Venezuela and Persian Gulf Crudes
By: EARTHWORKS
Published: May 2010
This research builds upon Research Note 1: Canadian Crude Oil Imports to U.S. Refineries: Tracking Tar Sands Crude, to demonstrate:
* Of the Gulf Coast refineries shown to take Canadian tar sands crude whether and how much Venezuelan and Persian Gulf Crude oil they imported in 2009.
* Of the Gulf Coast refineries projected to take Canadian tar sands crude from the Keystone XL pipeline, whether and how much Venezuelan and Persian Gulf Crude oil they imported in 2009.
There are two notes in this series. The first is Canadian crude oil imports to U.S. refineries.
Tagged with: gulf coast, padd, venezuela, u.s. refineries, persian gulf
Tracking Tar Sands Crudes: Candian Crude Oil Imports to U.S Refineries
By: EARTHWORKS
Published: May 2010
In 2009, there were 43 refineries that reported receiving heavy Canadian crude oil imports (of all refineries reporting imports of crude oil). It is assumed that these refineries did receive Canadian tar sands crude, as tar sands crude is a heavy oil, and, as of 2006, tar sands crude accounted for 43% of crude oil production in Canada. In addition, tar sands production surpassed conventional oil production in the western Canadian provinces.
There are two notes in this series. The second is Gulf Coast refineries taking or projected to take Canadian tar sands crude that also take Venezuelan and Persian Gulf crudes.
Tagged with: padd, u.s. refineries
Tar Sands Invasion
By: Corporate Ethics International | EARTHWORKS | Natural Resources Defense Council | Sierra Club | Kenny Bruno, Bruce Baizel, Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Elizabeth Shope, Kate Colarulli
Published: May 2010
How dirty and expensive oil from Canada threatens America's new energy economy
Tagged with: sierra club, natural resources defense council, corporate ethics international, oil demand, new energy economy, earthworks
The Keystone XL Pipeline: Not Needed, Too Expensive, Better Solutions Exist
By: Plains Justice | Paul Blackburn
Published: May 2010
The primary concern driving development of the Keystone XL pipeline is the ability to use U.S. Gulf Coast refining capacity to process tar sands crude oil, especially in the event of lost imports from Venezuela, Mexico and Nigeria. However, other more cost-effective and environmentally responsible solutions exist including more flexible use of our existing crude oil pipeline system and energy efficiency efforts that will help consumers adapt to increasing oil prices.
Tagged with: pipeline, keystone xl, plains justice, demand
Tar Sands In Your Tank
By: Greenpeace UK
Published: May 2010
Exposing Europe's role in Canada's dirty oil trade
Tagged with: low carbon fuel standard, greenpeace uk, demand, low carbon economy
Tar Sands Oil Means High Gas Prices
By: Corporate Ethics International | Lorne Stockman
Published: May 2010
Tar sands (also known as oil sands) oil production is the most expensive oil production in the world. The Keystone XL pipeline will create significant over capacity for tar sands crude into the U.S. raising pipeline tariffs and adding to the already high cost of tar sands production. The growth in tar sands production needed to fill the Keystone XL pipeline will only occur if oil prices keep rising. Tar sands production exerts little if any influence over global oil prices because it maintains no spare production capacity. Tar sands production is a symptom of high oil prices and not a basis for lower prices.
Tagged with: pipeline, keystone xl, corporate ethics international, oil prices
Watered Down: Overcoming Federal Inaction on the Impact of Oil Sands Development to Water Resources
By: Water Matters
Published: December 2009
Watered Down highlights some of the most compelling testimony from the recent federal hearings by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. From its testimony, Watered Down derives the recommendation that the Government of Canada should live up to its legislative responsibility and substantially increase its role in protecting human health and the environment through the oversight and regulation of the oil sands industry's impact on fresh water resources and aquatic ecosystems.
Tagged with: stephen harper, public health, water quality, water matters
