Sentences with phrase «american oil extraction»
Canadian CEOs agreed that the BP disaster will lead to much tougher regulation of the entire North American oil extraction industry, with a mean of 6 on the 7 - point agreement scale.
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The pipeline or any other way to bring Western Canadian Crude to Tex refiners would speed up oil extraction in Alberta and increase world supplies, which would bring down oil prices for all Americans, by about a dollar a barrel according to Levi.
He did manage to rattle off the well - known facts: the oilsands account for only of 1 / 10th of 1 % of global emissions; the pipeline would create thousands of American jobs; Canada has already reduced the emission intensity from heavy - oil extraction by 25 %.
The decision to reduce Bears Ears is expected to set off a legal battle that could alter the course of American land conservation, putting dozens of other monuments at risk and possibly opening millions of preserved public acres to oil and gas extraction, mining, logging and other commercial activities.
Congress questions the federal leasing programs Yesterday, Democratic Reps. Alan Lowenthal of California and Raúl Grijalva of Arizona introduced legislation that would raise the rate oil and gas companies pay for leasing public lands to «ensure that the American people are being fairly compensated for the extraction of resources on public lands.»
«The oil and gas industry has benefited from outdated royalty rates for leasing our public lands, while the American people are forced to suffer the consequences of fossil fuel extraction,» he said.
A go - go approach to domestic oil extraction might make sense if American highways could keep adding lanes as the country heads toward and beyond a population of 400 million.
The American Lung Association supports protective regulations and state - of - the - art pollution controls, including leakage detection and emissions monitoring, throughout the entire system during the exploration, extraction (including hydraulic fracturing), production, transmission, transport, refining and use of oil and natural gas.
However, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that fewer than 200,000 people were employed in the oil and gas extraction industry as of May 2016, indicating that the industry employs far fewer Americans that Mr. Trump suggests.
The idea was to let the American people know that Rex Tillerson, as a lifetime employee and CEO of the ExxonMobil Corporation from 2006 to 2016, has taken little to no action to reduce Exxon's carbon burden, instead working actively to defeat climate legislation in Congress and to maximize Exxon's oil and gas extraction activities and profit at the expense of Earth's climate system.
«While Americans are increasingly turning against fracking and fossil fuels, President Obama has shockingly seen fit to double down on oil extraction to facilitate needless exports,» said Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter.