Sentences with phrase «gas plant on land»

The Haisla have also formed a tripartite partnership in the Kitimat Liquid Natural Gas plant on land the Haisla held, which recently obtained a permit to export held by Encana Corp., Apache Corp., and EOG Resources Inc. «That could be a $ 5 - billion to $ 7 - billion project that we will hear about later this spring as to whether it will go forward,» says Greg D'Avignon, president and chief executive officer of the Business Council of British Columbia.

Not exact matches

Doing so would upend the states» traditional role as the main regulator of oil and gas on privately held land, and perhaps choke off the gas needed to clean up dirty power plants.

These are also known as biofuels, i.e. plants that would otherwise potentially go to feed people (or grown on land that would otherwise grow food) going into gas tanks instead.

or stomata, the tiny openings on the leaf surface through which plants absorb gases needed for photosynthesis, can provide clues to land elevation over time.

Calera bubbles the flue gas from the Moss Landing power plant on the California coast through seawater to produce an aggregate from carbonate, the same mineral sea creatures use to build their shells, perhaps more familiar as chalk.

«The global spread of plants and their adaptations to life on land, led to an increase in continental weathering rates that ultimately resulted in a dramatic decrease the levels of the «greenhouse gas» carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and global cooling,» said co-author Dr. Jennifer Morris, from the University of Bristol.

Although atmospheric oxygen soon recovered again as photosynthesis and weathering reached a new balance, at about 10 per cent of present - day levels, the oxidative weathering of sulphides on land filled the oceans with sulphate which created abundant food for a group of bacteria that filled the oceans with sewer gas (hydrogen sulphide) toxic to oxygen - loving lifeforms (delaying the development of eukaryotic plants and animals) and turned them «into stinking, stagnant waters almost entirely devoid of oxygen.»

The last time we saw the work of Francois Xavier Lalanne in Chelsea, the real estate developer Michael Shvo took some of the French sculptor's sheep works from his collection and installed the sheep on a lawn he planted in a soon - to - be-demolished Getty gas station on land he owned.

THURSDAY Opening: «Les Lalanne» at Paul Kasmin Gallery The last time we saw the work of Francois Xavier Lalanne in Chelsea, the real estate developer Michael Shvo took some of the French sculptor's sheep works from his collection and installed the sheep on a lawn he planted in a soon - to - be-demolished Getty gas station on land he owned.

Relying heavily on biofuels made from food crops — such as soybeans, sugar cane, or canola — would not only affect food supplies and increase food prices, but would produce significant greenhouse gases during the planting and harvesting of these crops, as well as from forest clearing for more agricultural land.

The order will require the Interior Department to lift a moratorium on the sale of new coal leases on federal land, and compel a review of regulations designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

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It also contends that natural gas exploration has a lower impact on the land than renewables, as «Wind and solar plants, by contrast, require enormous amounts of land.»

That's the result of an important new study in Nature, which finds that the Earth's land «biosphere» — defined as all the plants, animals and microorganisms living on the surface of the Earth (excluding the oceans)-- is now a «net source» of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

Lorraine Land, «Issues and Concerns Which Should Be Addressed in the Impact Assessment of the Unocal Sour Gas Plant», November 1994, A Submission to the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board on behalf of the Aboriginal Rights Coalition (Edmonton).