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Reasons to quit: Millions of gallons leaking from oil sands tailings ponds daily
Just in case you needed another reason to cut back on your gasoline consumption, you might consider the pollution catastrophe we are creating in Canada, America's main oil supplier. A new report (PDF) released by Environmental Defense, using industry figures, estimates that tailings ponds created by oil sands projects may be leaking 2,750,000 gallons of contaminated water every day. While that sounds like a lot, the problem may actually be even worse considering the conservative methodology used to reach the conclusion. Titled "11 Million ... Read more →
Oil sands projects bogging down Domenick Yoney
The recent drop in oil prices, in combination with the failing economy, is taking a toll in the development of Canadian oil sands. Because of low labor productivity and increasing costs, the ...
Saudi Arabia to begin pumping on Khurais oil field shortly Jeremy Korzeniewski
Saudi Aramco's core area in Dhahran city The world's insatiable demand for petroleum is about to cause more drilling and pumping in Saudi Arabia, as the country is set to begin setting up shop on the ...
U.S. mayors call for oil sands boycott Domenick Yoney
Oil sands mining transforms the landscape Photo: David Dodge, Pembina Institute American mayors attending their annual meeting in Florida this week adopted a resolution that "supports federal ...
Former Saudi Aramco executive says oil reserves claims wrong Domenick Yoney
All sorts of people have been weighing in on the price-of-oil situation lately. Could the current price be a bubble waiting to burst or is it reflective of flat production levels mixed with the ...
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Honda passes the 60 million Cub mark 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Honda's amazing little Cub, which started life with a tiny little four-stroke engine of just 50ccs, continues to build on its record of the most popular vehicle in the world. Just how many tiny-engined Hondas could there be in the world, you ask? How about sixty million. That's certainly a ...
Big Oil launches counteroffensive 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
With all the attention being paid to alternative fuels, it is not surprising that Big Oil should launch a PR counteroffensive. The American Petroleum Institute (API), advertising itself as "the People of America's Oil and Natural Gas Industry," is running a new TV ad, Delivering America's Energy ...
New refinery to be built in South Dakota to process Canadian crude 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
When people think of South Dakota, assuming they think of the state at all, they probably remember the Black Hills, or Mount Rushmore. That may soon change. The largest supplier of crude oil to the United States is Canada and the majority of that oil comes from the oil sands of Alberta. Hyperion ...
Petro-Canada proceeding on new $25B oil-sands project 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Petro-Canada and their partners in Fort Hills Energy L.P. are moving ahead with engineering and design work on a new oil-sands development in northern Alberta that could ultimately cost $25 billion. If construction of the new facility is approved next year, production is scheduled to start in late ...
AutoblogGreen Q&A: Nick Zielinski and Gary Smyth of General Motors 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Following the Challenge-X presentation presentation at General Motors headquarters last week, a group of bloggers including myself, Matt Kelly of The Next Gear, Lyle Dennis of gm-volt.com, Todd Kaho of Green Car Journal, Scott Anderson of Hydrogen Forecast, Philip Proefrock of Ecogeek, and Matt ...
Shell's "Eureka" extended commercial comes to DVD in WIRED 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
There is a ridiculously small number of people who have had their lives transformed into a movie. There number of people who have seen their lives spun into a nine-minute corporate commercial is even smaller. Billed as "A story inspired by real events," the Shell Films commercial "Eureka" has ...
Expansion of Alberta oil sands production could increase CO2 by 30% 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Oil sands bitumen extraction cell - Wikipedia The western Canadian province of Alberta comprises less than ten percent of the country's population but is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, due primarily to oil sands production. Extracting usable oil from tar sands requires a lot of heat, ...
Oil sands producers could shift to geothermal power 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Thanks to the increased cost of crude oil in recent years, there have been moves to make big expansions in oil production in northern Alberta, Canada. Alberta has some of the largest known petroleum reserves in the world, but unfortunately much of it is locked up in tar sands that need processing ...
