In a shell-pink evening she saunters on the sands posts
The Root What were your thoughts after watching Netflix's Burning Sands?
The Root’s Divine 9 Members Watched Burning Sands and We Have Some Thoughts
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If Netflix’s Burning Sands were about drug addiction instead of hazing, would people be talking about it?
108 months ago
Daily Mail Model saunters along a beach in nothing but a SPRAY-ON BIKINI... so how many people realised she was naked?
108 months ago
The Wall Street Journal The move ends Statoil’s nearly decadelong foray into oil sands production and comes two years after the company canceled plans to develop a major oil sands project, citing concerns about profitability.
Statoil Exits Production in Canadian Oil Sands
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Norway’s state-owned oil giant Statoil ASA said Wednesday it is exiting its business in the Canadian oil sands, selling off its assets to Athabasca Oil Corp. and taking a loss of at least $500 million.
111 months ago
The Wall Street Journal The blaze emptied the town of Fort McMurray. Oil-sands facilities aren’t directly threatened by the uncontrolled forest fires, but have been affected by the mandatory evacuations of workers and their families.
Alberta Forest Fire Halts Shell Oil-Sands Operation
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Raging forest fires in Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta forced the closure of one major oil-sands mining operation on Wednesday and reduced output at another, a day after tens of thousands of people evacuated a remote community that serves as Read more ... a hub for the oil-sands industry.
119 months ago
Places to See Before You Die The Unique Pink Sands Beach in Harbour Island, the Bahamas
The Unique Pink Sands Beach in Harbour Island, the Bahamas
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Found on the one of the smaller islands of the Bahamas, the beach provides a perfect place to sunbathe and swim in the warm crystal clear water.
126 months ago
NPR For our own Bob Boilen, Pink Floyd represents the antithesis of folk music. Out there and psychedelic, yeah — down home and folky, nope. So it was weird to see him on Newport's lineup.
But it all made sense when he saw Waters live.
Newport Folk's Pink Floyd Moment
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Joined by My Morning Jacket and other special guests, the Pink Floyd co-founder proved himself to be one of the folk with an evening set that seemed to turn rainy skies into a glorious sunset.
128 months ago
Bryan Stickles “It’s not just Keystone XL. Big Oil is trying to build and expand an enormous network of tar sands pipelines—some even bigger than Keystone XL—from Canada into the Great Lakes region. These tar sands pipelines, including the Alberta Clipper, Read more ... along with crude oil trains and tankers, pose a growing risk to the Great Lakes, our rivers, our communities and our climate.”
5,000+ Take to the Streets for Historic 'Tar Sands Resistance March'
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Thousands of people came together to protest new pipelines and other infrastructure projects during the Tar Sands Resistance March. #StopTarSands was the social
130 months ago
Places to See Before You Die The Unique Pink Sands Beach in Harbour Island, the Bahamas
The Unique Pink Sands Beach in Harbour Island, the Bahamas
www.placestoseeinyourlifetime.com
Found on the one of the smaller islands of the Bahamas, the beach provides a perfect place to sunbathe and swim in the warm crystal clear water.
131 months ago
Sheriff Gerry Ali Another Blow To KeystoneXL Pipeline; Shell Withdraws From Massive Tar Sand Oil Project!
[Think Progress] Keystone XL is not the only deciding factor in the future of tar sands extraction.
The outsized debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, which ent Read more ... ered a new era yesterday after Obama wielded his veto pen against legislation approving its construction, is not the only element in the debate over whether the greenhouse gas-intensive tar sands get developed. Oil supply, demand, and cost are pulling some major levers too: with oil prices at rock-bottom lows, on Monday Royal Dutch Shell announced it was shelving plans to build a new tar sands mine in northern Alberta — the largest such project to be deferred.
Shell withdrew its applications for the Pierre River project, which would have produced 200,000 barrels-per-day (bpd), to focus on maintaining profitability for its existing 255,000-bpd tar sands operations, according to the company.
“The Pierre River Mine (PRM) remains a very long term opportunity for us but it’s not currently a priority,” said Lorraine Mitchelmore, Shell Canada President and Executive Vice President of Heavy Oil. “Our current focus is on making our heavy oil business as economically and environmentally competitive as possible.
Shell was one of the earliest tar sands producers to cut staff due to low oil prices, laying off around 300 workers at its Albian tar sands project in Alberta starting last month.
Instability makes it hard for most companies to do business, and unreliable oil prices are no different. Crude oil prices have fallen more than 50 percent over the last six months, hovering between $50 and $60 per barrel of late. Last August, Mitchelmore said Shell Canada’s tar sands business met profitability markers when crude traded above $70 per barrel.
Shell originally halted work on the Pierre River project a year ago, stating the need to re-evaluate the timing as a heated environmental review process was taking longer than anticipated. The project was first proposed in 2007.
Tar sands are extremely GHG intensive, and the shelving of the Pierre River project along with two other tar sands endeavors — Total’s Joslyn North and Statoil’s Corner Project — has helped avoid the emissions of 2.8 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to stopping the construction of 18 new coal plants with a lifespan of four decades. Tar sands oil produces as much as three times the greenhouse gas emissions of conventionally produced oil. The government of Alberta, where the mines are sited, expects to lose $5.5 billion in revenue this year because of low oil prices.
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133 months ago
Portal Gost Deliblato Sands, or also called "Banat sand" represents the largest continental sandstone in Europe http://www.gost.rs/en/interestings/deliblato-sands
Deliblato Sands
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Deliblato Sands, positioned in southern Banat, between Vrsac and Tamis Danube level, dating from the Ice Age by the work of the wind which patiently...
134 months ago