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Oil Use Must Drop To Meet Climate Goals
By: Oil Change International, Corporate Ethics International | Lorne Stockman, Kenny Bruno
Published: December 2010
The 2010 World Energy Outlook, published on November 9, shows that in order to meet climate goals global oil demand must peak by 2018. This goal will not be easy to achieve but may still be within reach. The IEA’s forecasts for oil demand have consistently declined for several years and demand growth appears to be slowing without a concerted effort from most countries. The implication for expensive, high risk and high carbon fuels such as Canadian tar sands is that over the long haul, in a world that is responding to climate change, neither price nor demand will support the rapid growth that is currently planned for by industry and the Canadian government.
Tagged with: climate change, corporate ethics international, oil demand, oil change international, iea
Tar Sands Pipelines: presenting unaddressed hazards to public safety
By: Natural Resources Defense Council | Anthony Swift, Elizabeth Shope
Published: December 2010
Tar sands crude oil pipeline comanies may be putting the American public's safety at risk by using conventional pipeline technology to transport a highly corrosive, acidic and potentially unstable blend of thick raw bitumen and volatile natural gas liquid condensate called DilBit.
Tagged with: pipeline, natural resources defense council, pipeline safety, bitumen
The Northern Great Plains at Risk: Oil Spill Planning Deficiencies in Keystone Pipeline System
By: Plains Justice
Published: November 2010
This first-of-its-kind report shows that TransCanada’s emergency response plan and on-the-ground spill defense preparations for the Keystone pipeline system are inadequate to respond to a serious spill along the thousands of miles of buried pipeline already in place or currently proposed in the northern Great Plains. No other publicly available report provides this level of detailed spill response analysis for tar sand pipeline infrastructure in the U.S.
Tagged with: keystone xl, pipeline, keystone, plains justice, safety
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: keystone xl, pipeline, national wildlife federation, oil demand, wildlife
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, persian gulf, u.s. refineries, venezuela
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 Fuelling the climate crisis, undermining EU energy security and damaging development
By: Friends of the Earth | Sarah Wykes and Steven Heywood
Published: May 2010
The global development of tar sands will magnify the climate crisis and damage the EU’s environment and development objectives, this report warns. It reveals that investment by European oil companies – such as BP, Shell, Total and ENI – is expanding with developments around the world including in the Republic of Congo, Venezuela, Madagascar, Russia, Jordan and Egypt, with potentially disastrous consequences for the climate and local communities.
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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: natural resources defense council, sierra club, corporate ethics international, oil demand, new energy economy, earthworks
