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heavy oil

noun

  1. a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Despite claims of being a climate leader and steward of endangered southern resident orcas, the Canadian government quickly purchased the incomplete heavy oil pipeline for $3.3 billion, insisting it was in the national interest.

The remaining heavy oil tends to sink, making cleanup unlikely in the Salish Sea’s deep straits.

In Japan, exports fell in August for a second straight month, weighed by declines in China's demand for steel and heavy oil and stoking fears of a downturn in the face of elevated global interest rates.

From Reuters

The crude is a better fit for Cuba's aging refineries than Venezuela's heavy oil.

From Reuters

The World Food Programme told the BBC on Thursday that the situation was a "public health crisis in the making" due to pollution including sewage, heavy oil and pesticides mixed into floodwater.

From BBC

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