Sentences with phrase «offshore oil drilling»

The 2010 BP oil disaster gave us a stark reminder of the dangers of offshore oil drilling.

Older adults also express more support for offshore oil drilling, and they are more likely to prioritize fossil fuel development over alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power.

The modern city was built on offshore oil drilling and film production.

Unfortunately, this plan calls for expanding offshore oil drilling to over 90 percent of our coastal waters!

There are others, including bills that would increase offshore oil drilling and block solar and offshore wind.

We need your help to stop offshore oil drilling.

And again the call has been raised to stop more offshore oil drilling.

«We may be looking at offshore oil drilling,» he said, in arguing for the wind farm, which could be operational in 2022.

Our ocean, waves and beaches are vital recreational, economic and ecological treasures that are put at risk by offshore oil drilling.

He supports offshore oil drilling as a way of expanding fossil fuel production.

By a 20 - percentage point margin, citizens are more likely than scientists to favor offshore oil drilling.

They may also help to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and the dangerous practice of offshore oil drilling.

About three quarters (74 %) consider increasing our use and production of alternative energy sources to be more important than increasing offshore oil drilling (15 %).

We strongly support reinstatement of the federal moratorium on new offshore oil drilling.

The other focal point, more legitimately, is Obama's challenge in trying to justify expanding offshore oil drilling in Arctic waters as he pushes a domestic climate plan and climate treaty pledge aimed away from fossil fuels.

Now, Graham and colleagues are waiting to see whether the species becomes a permanent resident, perhaps encouraged by declining coastal water quality and a growing thicket of offshore oil drilling platforms, which may provide the perfect hard substrate for a bottom - dwelling life stage.

Amendment 9 combines a proposed ban on offshore oil drilling with a proposed ban on vaping in the workplace.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released a draft of the 2019 - 2024 five year offshore oil drilling plan for US waters.

«The Surfrider Foundation is deeply dismayed by the House's decision to expand offshore oil drilling off the California coast, the Atlantic coast, and elsewhere.

I am still reeling from the shock of McCain's announcement about offshore oil drilling.

We know that plastics production is being dialled up dramatically, that gas production is increasing all over the world thanks to fracking technology, that restrictions on offshore oil drilling make even more cheap American fuels.

If that wasn't enough, expanding industries such as offshore oil drilling, renewable energy, shipping, and aquaculture threaten to crowd our oceans and degrade the health of the ecosystem.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

We will march to fight offshore oil drilling, end plastic pollution and protect our coastlines!

Current renewable energy legislation is stalled in the senate, with disagreement over offshore oil drilling being cited as a reason for the current deadlock.

On the other hand, Barack Obama — while not ruling out the use of greater nuclear power, clean coal, or even offshore oil drilling with qualifications — has expressed much greater confidence in the ability of renewable energy technology to supply a greater percentage of our energy needs in a shorter time period.

Despite the 2010 offshore oil drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, despite the U.S. suddenly becoming the top oil producer in the world and despite decades of opposition, President Barack Obama is moving to open up the offshore Atlantic to oil and gas drilling.

In terms of conservation, Belize was the first country in the world to completely ban bottom trawling in 2010 and subsequently banned offshore oil drilling within 1 km of the reef, helping to maintain its pristine appearance.

The southern coast of Santa Barbara County was the location of the world's first offshore oil drilling, which took place from piers at the Summerland Oil Field in 1896, just 6 miles (10 km) from the spill site.

Proposals for offshore oil drilling pose another threat.

When this post was first written fuel prices and the United States» future energy policy were the prime reason offshore oil drilling made the headlines.

The story shows how companies doing offshore oil drilling had shifted progressively to cutting the risk of failure by adding a second blind shear ram to blowout preventers.

While the political fight over the now - vivid environmental threat attending offshore oil drilling plays out, it remains clear that the country's lawmakers are not remotely engaged in the multi-pronged energy quest that would be required to move the world toward a non-polluting, yet prosperous future.

«She has successfully fought to improve the strength of America's fisheries and to keep offshore oil drilling from impacting the 165,000 Washington jobs that depend on clean coastal water.»

With the backing of science, economics, clean energy leaders, local businesses, and the vast majority of Americans, the Obama administration permanently protected most of the Arctic Ocean and a chain of deep sea canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to Canada's border, from dangerous and destructive offshore oil drilling.

«The Trump administration's embattled offshore oil drilling plan that exposes our public oceans to oil spills has unified the public in strong opposition that cuts across party lines.

It expanded extraction using hydrofracturing in tar sands to increase activity in offshore oil drilling all over the world, thereby maximizing its rate of fossil fuel extraction and processing.

«Hands Across The Sand» is an international movement against 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 Surfrider Foundation is focused on protecting our coasts from the risky practice of offshore oil drilling through grassroots advocacy at the federal and state levels.

By this time offshore oil drilling would add approximately 250,000 barrels a day to the U.S. market, against an overall current demand of about 21 million barrels.

In 2006, he voted to end limits to offshore oil drilling along Florida's Gulf Coast.

He is still illegally exempting dangerous offshore oil drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico from all environmental review as millions of gallons of oil gush into the ocean.

Some small measure of sanity... BBC News, CNN, and others are reporting that President Obama will extend a ban on new deepwater offshore oil drilling for six months, while the causes of the BP oil spill are investigated.

As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to spread, and the Coast Guard investigating reports that oil has begun washing ashore in Louisiana, President Obama has banned new offshore oil drilling.

I can't help but wonder whether, years from now, I'll still be writing pieces with titles like «Destroying What Remains,» as the Navy continues its war - gaming in an ice - free summer Arctic amid a sea of offshore oil drilling platforms.

I was responsible for building and tearing down scaffolds on big vessels, giant oil rigs or offshore oil drilling rigs.