Sentence examples for exploitation of tar from inspiring English sources
"An overwhelming objection is that exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts," NASA's James Hansen wrote recently.
Canada's inaction was blamed by some on its desire to protect the lucrative but highly polluting exploitation of tar sands, the second biggest oil reserve in the world.
The exploitation of tar sands has also led to the destruction of swaths of forest and is blamed for water and air pollution.
They say that as a result, taxpayers' money is being used to invest in activities such as the exploitation of tar sands which are causing climate change.
"We believe that the exploitation of tar sands and other unconventional fossil fuels threatens global efforts to avoid dangerous levels of climate change and, as these leaks have highlighted, risk ecological disaster". CNRL said a review was under way into why the leaks had occurred, but said it believed bitumen had risen to the surface because of mechanical failures of well bores.
In the United States and Canada, the movement against the exploitation of tar sands is the expression of a civil society that wants to stop polluting our planet.
The transborder pipe was built in 1967, long before the exploitation of tar-sands oil was commercially viable.
Protecting limited habitat for caribou while killing thousands of wolves as the exploitation of the tar sands continues to expand will not accomplish this goal.
(The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline is, at its heart, a fight over whether the U.S. should be encouraging — or, if you prefer, profiting from — the exploitation of the tar sands).
