Examples of 'tar sands' in a sentence

Meaning of "tar sands"

Tar sands, also known as oil sands, refer to a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. They are a mixture of sand, water, clay, and bitumen, a heavy, sticky, and dense form of petroleum. Tar sands are typically extracted through mining or drilling methods and require additional processing to extract and refine the bitumen for further use as fuel or other products
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The tar sands combine is one example.
Bituminous or oil shale and tar sands.
Tar sands really are not oil.
The environmental impact of tar sands is clear.
Developing tar sands and coal shale is the equivalent.
This is what accumulates in the tar sands of.
Stop the largest tar sands project in history.
The future does not include tar sands.
Canadian tar sands is an oil.
Heavy crude and tar sands.
Tar sands are the turning point in our fossil fuel addiction.
I fly back to the tar sands tonight.
He worked as a heavy machine operator in the tar sands.
The international opposition to tar sands development is growing.
There is also petroleum in oil sands tar sands.

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This is very similar to the tar sands extraction process.
Oil companies are withdrawing from the tar sands.
No tar sands mine has actually ever been denied approval.
Silscreen poster against tar sands extraction.
The tar sands represent just one example of incredible environmental destruction.
Oil shale and tar sands.
The tar sands illustrate that the oil is still out there.
And not drill in the alberta tar sands.
Syncrude obtained from tar sands is another example of unrefined oil.
Oil sands or rather i should say tar sands.
Which would take tar sands raw down to the gulf coast.
It is stopping the tar sands.
The tar sands could threaten not just a large section of the boreal.
Bitumen and tar sands.
The tar sands consume more water than any other oil process.
I thought you were out at the tar sands getting rich.
Tar sands are the most climate hostile transport fuel in commercial production today.
This problem will escalate with tar sands expansion.
To get at the tar sands involves scraping the surface off vast tracts of land.
Money has also been given to the tar sands industry.
Refining tar sands requires two to three times as much energy as refining crude oil.
The oil coming from the tar sands is not.
Tar sands are typically mined which requires a large amount of energy to start the process.
That brings me to this question of tar sands and oil shale.
Coal liquefaction and tar sands oil recovery can be performed by the method as well.
And we need to all gather together and say no to the tar sands.
Athabascan tar sands.
The preferred fuels within this embodiment are oil shale and tar sands.
Castro on tar sands.
This report makes outrageous statements about how environmentally damaging the tar sands are.
She wanted people to clean up the tar sands and to establish a carbon tax.
Amidst further delays and increasing controversy for their flagship tar sands refinery.
Oil shale and tar sands produced and combusted directly should be reported in this category.
Prove that it is not in any way endangered by the tar sands project.
The extraction of the oil from tar sands requires huge amounts of energy and water.

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