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It also draws parallels between the two spills — both featured calls from the oil industry and its allies to not let one accident halt the offshore drilling industry, and both had bumbling CEOs who kept shoving their feet in their mouths.
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On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to reverse the coal industry's declining fortunes and supported opening up offshore drilling in the Atlantic.
The Trump administration has already granted an exemption to Florida based on the impact offshore drilling would have to the state's crucial tourism industry after Zinke met with Republican Gov. Rick Scott.
Oil service companies are getting hit because they are focusing their efforts on offshore drilling, an industry struggling due to low oil prices that can not justify conducting more typically lucrative deep - water drilling projects.
U.S. President Donald Trump just signed an executive order to expand offshore drilling to areas that were previously off - limits, despite low industry demands.
NE is an offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry with operations all over the world including operations in the United States, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, Mexico, Brazil, the North Sea, the Mediterranean, West Africa, the Middle East, India, Malaysia, and Australia.
But he added that he wants a coastal revenue - sharing provision added on the floor, which the industry wants to provide states incentive to support offshore drilling.
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But fossil fuel advocates note that DOE support has been critical to industry advances, including developing the technology behind fracking, offshore drilling, and cleaner - burning coal and natural gas power plants.
My experience encompasses the US military, the US Postal Service, a variety of business and industry, drilling and production offshore from the South China Sea to the Gulf of Mexico, and domestic drilling all over the US.
Plc engages in offshore drilling services for oil and gas industry.
First of all its in an industry that is nothing if not «out - of - favor», offshore drilling support.
«Ensco plc (NYSE: ESV) brings energy to the world as a global provider of offshore drilling services to the petroleum industry.
It appears that the primary reason for the spin - off was that Pride wanted to exit the struggling shallow water drilling business in the GOM and increase its focus on the floating and deep water drilling segments where Pride «believes the best long - term growth prospects reside in the offshore industry.»
Instead of digging for more of the same (e.g. offshore drilling), why hasn't big industry invested in other technologies?
He's also implying that he'll stick with his (ill - timed) support for expanded offshore drilling — although obviously with an aggressive clampdown on the oil industry and the agencies that, in theory at least, were supposed to protect workers and the environment.
When it comes to drilling offshore, my administration approved more than two permits last year for every new well that the industry started to drill.
Just a few weeks prior to the BP oil spill, President Obama announced that more areas would be opened up for offshore drilling, though a compromise was made which kept several areas the oil industry wanted access to off limits.
BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster indicates that the best efforts of the oil industry are incapable of preventing environmental calamities from offshore drilling.
The Natural Resources Defense Council has issued a statement concluding that recent events — most notably the grounding of a Shell Oil drilling rig in Alaska — show the oil industry is not ready to safely, cleanly drill offshore in the Arctic.
a great irony I have observed while working at sea since 1983 in the global offshore oil & gas industry is the explosion of marine life that occurs in and around offshore drilling rigs.
To get truly serious about addressing climate change, Washington must end the billions in subsidies going to the industry and move to keep fossil fuels in the ground by banning drilling offshore and ending the fossil fuel leasing program on public lands.
Vote 4 Energy is a continuation of API's Energy Citizens astroturf campaign intended to portray citizen support for the oil industry's business priorities, such as the tar sands Keystone XL pipeline, offshore drilling in the Arctic and hydraulic fracturing.
By opening up the mid-Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and north coast of Alaska to new offshore oil drilling and exploration, the Minerals Management Service not only places our environment at risk, it threatens the livelihoods of millions of Americans who rely on clean, healthy, oil - free oceans and beaches to support fishing, tourism and other industries.»
Surfrider Foundation chapters and recreation industry leaders to present surfboard covered in signatures to federal leaders as a representation of collective opposition to new offshore oil drilling
On Saturday, June 26, the nation will join hands on beaches and in parks and cities all across America, united against the dangers offshore oil drilling present to our oceans and marine wildlife, fishing industries and coastal economies, in Hands Across The Sand.
The Koch brothers — major Republican donors whose sprawling empire of fossil fuel - related industries has made them billionaires — have cheered on the fossil fuel - friendly moves that Republican Congress and the Trump administration have undertaken, from an attempt to kill rooftop solar in the recent tax bill to a solar tariff that could slow solar adoption to going ham with offshore drilling to pulling out of the Paris climate agreement.
A DeSmog investigation has revealed that the Hudson Institute, via industry funding its advocacy efforts, has proven instrumental in opening up Israel's offshore natural gas reserves for drilling in the Mediterranean Sea for Noble Energy.
Offshore rules softening: The Trump administration is moving to relax some offshore drilling requirements imposed in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster but is rebuffing the oil industry's plea for bigger changes.
It calls for a revenue - neutral carbon price, a 10 million person «clean energy workforce,» a 65 miles per gallon average fuel economy for cars and trucks by 2025, the construction of a nationwide high - speed rail network, a ban on oil drilling offshore and in the Arctic, and a phaseout of subsidies to the fossil fuel industry — all top items on environmentalists» wish lists.
He's held Big Oil and other polluters accountable for their actions, and fought against expanded offshore drilling in the Arctic, by showing that the industry is not technologically prepared to do so.
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The Administration and Congress should ban offshore drilling and stop putting oil industry interests above everything else.
Though the dirty energy industries» dislike of Obama seems a bit misplaced, (between allowing widespread fracking and his support of drilling offshore and in the arctic, Obama has given the fossil fuel lobby plenty) it does make sense that they would support Mitt Romney.
The annual $ 7 billion figure does not include industry freebies like publicly funded infrastructure for fossil fuel development on our shared land, inadequate financial protections to pay for coal mining cleanup, or decommissioning costs for offshore drilling.
Between the loss of jobs in the tourism and fishing industries around the Gulf, as well as those lost from the moratorium on offshore drilling, at least one analyst says that one million people will be out of work as a result of the spill.
It is an industry that can create more jobs than offshore drilling and do it in a way that does not risk devastating our shorelines with an accident.»
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But now it has come to light that the oil industry is conducting offshore fracking in the Gulf, which is even more dangerous than conventional oil drilling, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.
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It has also now been held to be wrong by the London Commercial Court in a judgment, which has had repercussions throughout the offshore oil and gas drilling industry.
Expert evidence was wide ranging, including offshore engineering and construction issues, the safe working practices of the offshore industry and the insurances available in the market to cover offshore construction projects and well drilling.
Ireland's pioneering offshore drilling business, Providence Resources won a contractual dispute with Transocean in 2014, which set significant precedents in the industry.
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