How to Use tar sand in a Sentence

tar sand

noun

• The $8 billion project would transport high-emitting tar sands oil from Canada down to the Gulf Coast.
  — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2018
• In fact, Zenith had been receiving, storing and shipping tar sands crude.
  — oregonlive.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• And the whole site regularly contends with shifting tar sands and pools of bubbling asphalt that seem to blossom out of nowhere.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
• Still, proponents say that shipping oil by pipeline is cheaper and safer than shipping it by rail, which is the other option for getting tar sands oil down to refineries in the States.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2017
• Line 3, a pipeline in Minnesota built by the oil company Enbridge, has been in the ground for nearly 60 years — but now Enbridge wants to build a replacement to carry tar sands oil from Canada.
  — Rosalie Chan, Teen Vogue, 18 Sep. 2017
• In the early 2000s, Dave Schindler turned his attention to the environmental impacts of extracting oil from Canada's tar sands.
  — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 26 Sep. 2019
• But worse than neglecting the supply-side arm, Trudeau’s support of tar sands development will grow the very stock of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that its demand-side policies are supposed to cut.
  — Richard Denniss, Fortune, 30 June 2018
• The two women and a third defendant had planned to argue that the threat of climate change from Canadian tar sands crude was so imminent that their actions were not only morally right, but necessary.
  — Steve Karnowski, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
• The vast pine barrens that Mr. Castner paddled through were occasionally broken by indigenous villages and by the oilfield towns that have sprung up to harvest Canada’s tar sands.
  — Rinker Buck, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• The refinery was super-profitable thanks to a bottleneck in the U.S. energy system: the refinery used crude oil from the tar sands of Canada to be refined into gasoline later sold to the upper Midwest.
  — Christopher Leonard, Time, 26 Sep. 2019
• Oil from tar sands like those in Canada have long faced criticism because of their high carbon intensity compared with more conventional oil sources.
  — Sarah Kent, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
• The pipeline would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, through Nebraska and ultimately to refineries in Texas.
  — Max Cohen, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2019
• The dangerous Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota would send a million barrels of tar sands oil — the dirtiest fossil fuel in the world — through the headwaters of the Mississippi River, tribal treaty lands and sacred wild rice beds.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
• Zenith has previously raised controversy in Portland because tar sands crude oil from Canada is transported by train through Portland neighborhoods to the firm’s terminal on the Willamette.
  — oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2019
• By morning rush hour, seven had rappelled down far enough to form an aerial blockade, successfully disrupting tanker transport of tar sands oil from the Burrard Inlet likely headed to Asian markets.
  — Maia Wikler, Teen Vogue, 6 Sep. 2018
• This financing—which has included supporting the most extreme oil and gas projects, like the huge pipelines planned in Canada’s uniquely filthy tar sands complex—is perhaps the single least defensible part of the fossil fuel enterprise.
  — Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
• For instance, leading engineering companies are involved in designing and building pipelines to bring more tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S., in spite of the negative social and ecological impacts.
  — Darshan Karwat, Slate Magazine, 30 Mar. 2017
• For example, JPMorgan Chase quadrupled its tar sands investments.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 3 Dec. 2018
• Another 30 million came from unconventional sources, including shale and Canada's tar sands, where production can remain steady for decades once mining operations have been set up.
  — Javier Blas, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
• Extraction from tar sands has drawn opposition from environmentalists, given that the process requires more energy than traditional drilling.
  — Eric Lipton, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2018
• General corporate funding for TransCanada means corporate funding for tar sands production.
  — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2018
• But however lavish its donations, the company is equally profligate in its spending on lobbying to block unhelpful legislation on tar sands, power plants, or renewable energy initiatives.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 20 July 2019

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