Alison M. Redford, the premier of Alberta, said Wednesday that the debate over Canada's oil sands development and the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline was tainted by a campaign of "misleading and false information" from opponents.
In the U.S., much of the oil sands debate centers around the construction of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
As the recent EIA report makes clear, the petcoke production boom and its accompanying petcoke export boom are the new elephant in the room in the debate over tar sands production, marketing, and most specifically, Keystone XL. "Petcoke is a seldom discussed yet highly important aspect of the full impacts of tar sands production," wrote Oil Change International.
The question of how the Rhineland hypothesis, so deeply rooted in supernatural reasoning, became the dominant scientific narrative is debated among scholars (Sand 2009).
"... Now that a line has been drawn in the sand, a debate of allocation of funds seems out of the question.
While Trump is just now drawing a rhetorical line in the sand, the debate around the technology has been a hot button topic for years.
The section also homes in on Canada's debate over shipping oil-sands crude to Asia and energy performance contracts that help cities invest in efficiency.
The Harper government's approach to public debate around the tar sands has been to silence not just protestors but scientists.
PHOENIX — The massive dust storms that swept through central Arizona this month have stirred up not just clouds of sand but a debate over what to call them.
And you will learn something about the men dying, still dying in the sand, while empty debates broil over long-ago lies; and how we reached the stage where they can be asked to stop wearing their own uniforms, in their own home towns, for shame.
