We can still extract oil from the tar sands of Canada.

我们仍可从加拿大的含油沙中提炼。

The Keystone XL pipeline is a bid in part to bring oil from Canada's tar sands

美国的输油管道项目计划将加拿大的沥青砂加工成石油，然后输入到墨西哥湾岸区的一些炼油厂进行加工。

The project, opposed for years by greens and Native American groups, would have carried oil from Alberta's tar sands.

该项目多年来一直遭到环保组织和美国原住民团体的反对，该项目原本要从艾伯塔省的油砂中提取石油。

That's what the tar sands is like.

这就是沥青砂的样子。

" Asphalt" is a mixture of tar, sand, and " gravel" (gravel), or small rocks.

“沥青”是焦油、沙子和“砾石”（砾石）或小石块的混合物。

They would certainly be put at risk by having this tar sands crude going through there.

让这些油砂原油通过那里，他们肯定会处于危险之中。

And that is what is standing in the way now of the Canadian - very expensive Canadian tar sands oil.

这就是现在阻碍加拿大的因素——非常昂贵的加拿大焦油砂油。

Well, actually creating this oil from Canadian tar sands is a very energy-intensive, high-polluting process that is also very expensive.

实际上，从加拿大的焦油砂中提取这种油是一个非常耗能、高污染的过程，而且成本也非常高。

The State Department says it's unlikely to propose keystone XL pipeline would have a big impact on the development of Canada's tar sands.

美国国务院表示，不太可能提出 keystone XL 管道会对加拿大油砂的开发产生重大影响。

They made the Alberta tar sands – one of the filthiest fossil fuel operations on Earth – far better recognised as an environmental atrocity and a global climate bomb that had to be defused.

他们让艾伯塔省的油砂——地球上最肮脏的化石燃料作业之一——被更广泛地认为是一种环境暴行和全球气候炸弹，必须予以拆除。

But since then, the price of oil has tumbled by more than half, making it likely that with or without a pipeline at least some of that oil will stay put in the tar sands.

不过从那以后，石油价格骤降的幅度超过50%，不管是否有这条输油管道，至少石油还有可能留在焦油砂地区。

Parts of it are already under construction, with the ultimate goal of carrying Canada's tar sands oil to refineries along the Gulf Coast, a project many lawmakers say would create needed jobs.

它的一部分已经在建设中，最终目标是将加拿大的焦油砂油运往墨西哥湾沿岸的炼油厂，许多立法者表示该项目将创造所需的就业机会。

Well, we have had a lot of disasters with pipelines, of course.The Kalamazoo River, 30 miles of that river was destroyed two years ago by a pipeline incident using these kinds of tar sands crude. It's bad stuff.

当然，我们在管道方面遇到过很多灾难。卡拉马祖河 30 英里长的河流在两年前因使用这些油砂原油的管道事故而被摧毁。这是坏事。

Well, here's the thing. That -- these tar sands are boreal forests, one of the last wild places on the planet. We have already destroyed, made an industrial wasteland out of a part of that forest the size of Chicago.

嗯，事情是这样的。那——这些焦油砂是北方森林，是地球上仅存的荒野之一。我们已经摧毁了那片面积相当于芝加哥的森林的一部分，并将其变成了一片工业荒地。