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Map of all pipelines regulated by the Canadian Energy Regulator that originate from Alberta. The key characteristic of the Athabasca deposit is that it is the only one shallow enough to be suitable for surface mining. About 10% of the Athabasca oil sands are covered by less than 75 metres (246 ft) of overburden.
(After the June 2010 spill of more than 800,000 US gallons (3,000 m 3) of crude oil into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River, an Enbridge tar sands pipeline—a 30-inch (760 mm) pipe compared to the 36-inch (910 mm) Keystone XL—was not completely shut down for 12 hours.)"
The Tar Sand Triangle is located in Southeastern Utah and covers an area of 148,000 acres (600 km 2). It is located between the Dirty Devil and Colorado Rivers in Wayne and Garfield Counties. The Tar Sand Triangle is the largest deposit of oil sands in the United States known today.
Tar Sands Blockade is a grassroots coalition of affected Texas and Oklahoma people and climate justice organizers who use peaceful and sustained civil disobedience to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Tar Sands Blockade used nonviolent direct action to stop construction of the pipeline throughout East Texas including banner drops ...
The Kearl Oil Sands Project is an oil sands mine in the Athabasca Oil Sands region at the Kearl Lake area, about 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada that is operated by the 143-year old Calgary, Alberta-headquartered Imperial Oil Limited—one of the largest integrated oil companies in Canada.
It is the fourth largest deposit of oil sands located in Alberta, located southwest of the larger Athabasca oil sands deposit. [1] [2] [3] It is also known as the Pelican Lake Oilfield. [4] The closest community is Wabasca.
The Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer is an aquifer in Texas, United States. [1]The aquifer supplies water to about 12 million homes in East Texas. [2]The aquifer's water quality is claimed to be at risk from leaks and spills from the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline by environmental organizations.
The Melville Island oil sands are a large deposit of oil sands (sometimes referred to as tar sands) on Melville Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Exploration for petroleum deposits in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago began, on Melville Island, in 1961. [ 3 ]