Awkwardly for oil companies, bitumen is not ordinary oil.

They remove bitumen from the dirt in two ways.

Moreover, the newer bitumen technology does without strip mines.

Awkwardly for environmentalists, Nature put corrosive bitumen in the dirt.

Environmentalists make several arguments for leaving the bitumen in the dirt.

The companies want the bitumen that Nature put in the oily dirt.

This heats the bitumen, making it runny enough to be pumped out.

The companies want the bitumen that Nature put in the oily dirt.

Laying kilometer upon kilometer of bitumen is the favored solution for many politicians.

US President Barack Obama has a limited opportunity to preserve the bitumen companies integrity.

Now sand is not only on Earth, but sand is ubiquitous throughout the universe. In fact, outer space is filled with sand, and that sand comes together to make our planets and the Moon.

The tar sands are hundreds of square kilometers of bitumen, a viscous and corrosive tarlike deposit.

Many bitumen companies claim that they already abide by such safeguards but environmentalists skepticism is justified.

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Bitumen permeates the dirt at the surface or, where thin layers of compost and sediment intervene, somewhat below basement levels.

In that year his first poetry collection, Der Sand aus den Urnen ( Sand from the Urns ), was published in Vienna by A. Sexl.

The sand on the beach is very hot.

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The direction of cross bedding in Glen Canyon Group sand dunes suggests that prevailing winds from the north transported the sand into the region.

Mandatory sequestration could make net CO2 emissions from bitumen extraction no worse than those from conventional oil wells, and perhaps even better.

Finally, today, Sand Monkey delivered the good news saying

As the area behind the coast is a desert, these winds can develop into sand storms with sand deposits in the Atlantic Ocean visible on satellite images.

Sand mounds are particularly advantageous, given coastal areas economic value.

An older technology features vast strip mines, huge diggers, and trucks carting oily dirt to industrial scale pressure cookers that drain off the bitumen.

Now something's interesting here. This looks very different than any sand on Earth that I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of sand on Earth, believe me.

Must we wait and see more children die in the sand?

The temple was covered by a second layer of clean sand.

Sand Lake is a town in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States.

Sami was sleeping in a hole that he dug in the sand.

It is one of the largest expanses of sand in the world.

Sand Fork is a town in Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States.

Its increase can also indicate the poor quality of a target sand.

Most of the sand on the Moon, especially and you know when you look at the Moon, there's the dark areas and the light areas. The dark areas are lava flows. They're basaltic lava flows, and that's what this sand looks like, very similar to the sand that you would see in Haleakala.

Elizabethtown is a town in Sand Creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States.

Perhaps some of you know it. Some of the words go like this The foolish man built his house upon the sand And the floods came up And the house on the sand went crash.

She doesn't mind because she knows she can't bury her head in the sand.

Sand Lake is a town in Burnett County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

Despite all the oil and gas below the desert sand, growth lagged and unemployment soared.

As far as I can tell, they are simply burying their heads in the sand.

Less frequent is the Sirocco, a hot sand bearing wind, coming from the Sahara Desert.

Halfway between the town and the airport there is a small beach of dark sand.

Every single grain is different. There are no two grains of sand alike in the world.

Putting one's head in the sand and pretending that everyone will benefit from globalization is foolish.

After listening to the speech, Stiletos in the Sand, an American based in Saudi Arabia, writes