Oil sands energy will continue to be produced without KXL – it’ll just go to China instead of U.S. In a brief video appearance for The Nation last week, 350.org president Bill McKibben echoed a common theme for anti-Keystone XL activists: “If Keystone [XL] doesn’t get built, it’s clear that banks and others will [...]
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Keystone XL & the Oil Sands: Supply in Perspective
February 13, 2013 Infographics
FACT: The U.S. imports 8.9 million barrels of petroleum per day. One-fourth of those imports come from Canada — a significant supply that can increase with Keystone XL, while creating jobs and improving American energy security along the way. (U.S. Energy Information Administration.) View Infographic
Keystone XL Pipeline: Security, Safety & Support
January 10, 2013 Infographics
Pipelines are widely acknowledged to be the safest and most efficient way to move energy products overland for long distances. Keystone XL is designed to be a state-of-the-art pipeline that will help diversify our energy supply and encourage domestic energy production. View infographic HERE.
Oil Sands: Reshaping Economies for the Better
June 5, 2012 Blog, Issue Alerts
Considering the oil sands region resides in Canada, we deem it part of our mission at OSFC to take a critical look at the latest information coming from the homeland to stay ahead of the curve. One such opportunity to shed light on the Canadian side of the debate came about last week with the [...]
The Difference between Extreme and Efficient
June 4, 2012 Issue Alerts
There was a time in this country when the only way to access oil was to commission a boat, take it offshore, locate, engage and coax onto your ship a 175,000-pound whale, bring it back without sinking, and then, once cleaned, extract the relatively small deposits of oil from the animal’s carcass. You want to [...]
Apples, Oranges, and the Oil Sands
June 4, 2012 Issue Alerts
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) added to the pile of conflicting well-to-wheels analyses with its report released this week, “The Life Cycle Assessment of Canadian Oil Sands,” written in the context of the Keystone XL project. Just like its predecessors, CRS wades into the world of assessment comparisons, choosing previously-published reports with seemingly common variables [...]
