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Journal of Political EcologyThis article develops the concept of energyscapes to examine the production, governance, and transformation of socio-material spaces for tar sands extraction, distribution, and consumption in Canada.
Antje Bruns, Emiliano Castillo Jara
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Wind resource assessment of northern part of Thailand
Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2023 With the unpleasant occurrences of climate change and global warming, there is an inevitable need to generate energy from renewable sources. Energy generation from burning coal, extracting fuel, ignition of CO2, exploiting tar sands, or any other ...
Tariq Khan +2 more
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Учёные записки Казанского университета: Серия Естественные науки, 2019 Sandy deposits can have a different genesis and form in different sedimentation environments. The example of the tar sands of the Early Permian age of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia) shows the possibility of their complex and polygenic formation with ...
A.I. Mullakaev, R.R. Khasanov
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Carbon resilience calibration as a carbon management technology
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2023 In the path to a net-zero carbon and energy transition from fossil fuel, the world is facing a dilemma of growing global energy demand and required actions on climate-related risks. While over 80% of the current global energy needs are supplied by fossil
Seyedeh Hosna Talebian +4 more
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Exhibiting the Extractive: Bitumen in Fort McMurray
Museum & SocietyThis article explores how bitumen is curated by the Fort McMurray Oil Sands Discovery Centre and, by extension Suncor’s recent, but no longer operational, ‘Experience the Energy’ tour.
Elysia French
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Tar sands need solid science [PDF]
Nature, 2010 As Canada exploits its oil sands ever faster, David Schindler calls for industry-independent environmental monitoring to back up better water-quality regulation.
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Journal of Political Ecology, 2019 This article focuses in on the ways in which the North American energy boom is reworking environments and livelihoods in the Great Lakes, focusing in particular on the expansion of BP's Chicago-area refinery as it has pivoted towards processing Canadian ...
Graham Pickren
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Use of Ultrasound for Tar Removal from Tar-Contaminated Sand
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING OF JAPAN, 2005 A countercurrent continuous washing apparatus for tar removal under ultrasonic irradiation has been developed. Tar was dissolved in dimethylformamide, DMF and sand was soaked into the resulting tar solution to prepare samples of tar-contaminated sand. Tar contents in DMF were determined by a UV-spectrophotometer from absorbance at 336.5 nm. The removal
Koparal, Ali Savaş +3 more
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Energy Exploration & Exploitation, 2021 For the sake of explaining the organic geochemical characteristics of the hydrocarbon source rocks (SRs) around Karamay, such as thermal maturity (TM) (evidences from the temperature of maximum pyrolysis yield (Tmax), the Carbon Preference Index (CPI ...
Chong Feng +4 more
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Humanities, 2016 This article approaches contemporary extractivism as an environmentally and socially destructive extension of an enduring colonial societal structure. Manifested in massive hydroelectric developments, clearcut logging, mining, and unconventional oil and ...
Anna J. Willow
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