Sentence examples for sand expansion from inspiring English sources

In terms of surface cover, the CVA detects more changed pixels, with an extension up to two or three times more than MAF in some specific classes (see the Bare soil and bare sand expansion class, with more than 5% pixels undetected from MAF, out of 6.93% of the CVA).

"This is really a campaign against tar sands expansion rather than a single pipeline," said Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, the director of the international program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group that is a leading American critic of the process.

In recent months, however, as low oil prices reduced the economic viability of further tar sands expansion, campaign groups have turned away from Keystone and shifted their energies to opposing Obama's decision to allow Shell to hunt for oil in the Arctic.

"Even though the State Department continues to downplay clear evidence that the Keystone XL pipeline would lead to tar sands expansion and significantly worsen carbon pollution, it has, for the first time, acknowledged that the proposed project could accelerate climate change," said Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, a campaigner for the Natural Resources Defence Council.

The spool fabrication project is part of an oil sands expansion project in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

The decision by Marathon Oil follows similar moves by Royal Dutch Shell, Suncor Energy and Petro-Canada to delay investments in oil sands expansion projects.

The FSEIS's reference scenario for tar sands expansion underestimates Keystone XL's impact on tar sands expansion assuming higher growth projections.  .

"Tar sands expansion poses a threat to fragile ecosystems all across the continent.

With the tar sands' expansion has come an accompanying petcoke export boom of historical proportion.

Alternatively, lower oil prices would put even the cheapest tar sands expansion projects in jeopardy.

In direct conflict with the FSEIS conclusions, current tar sands pipeline bottlenecks are already constraining investment in tar sands expansion.