Sentences with phrase «petroleum industry environmental»

Documents on climate change prepared for or by industry groups including the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Oil & Gas Association and the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association.

«The time for experimentation, for marginal changes and for conditional response is now over,» Christiana Figueres told the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA) in a speech in London.

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Environmental performance in the WA offshore petroleum exploration and production industry will be enhanced by new regulations.

The government and the oil and gas industry have spent lavishly to promote fossil fuel development, but a poll for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers found that only 51 % of us think tar sands / oil sands development is worth the environmental risk; 49 % think it isn't.

The Alberta government announced the formation of the group yesterday along with its three co-chairs: Dave Collyer, the former president and CEO of the the oil industry's top lobby group the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Tzeporah Berman, an environmental advocate and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree Firstindustry's top lobby group the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Tzeporah Berman, an environmental advocate and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree environmental advocate and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree FirstIndustry relations with the Mikisew Cree First Nation.

Khew and others say Singapore's highly efficient oil refining industry could help the world meet its demand for petroleum at a lower environmental cost than elsewhere.

Of the 15 hydrogeologists in the Denver office where Zeiler works, only three have Ph.D. s. That's typical of the field as a whole: AGI estimates that university programs graduate five times as many M.S. students as Ph.D. s. Its figures show that about 18,000 hydrologists and hydrogeologists now work in the environmental industry, a few thousand in the mining and petroleum industries, and about 850 in academia, the only sector for which a doctorate is required.

More recently, his paintings reflect his environmental concerns over the petroleum industry.

Re # 10 The USGS was walked up to the wall back in the mid 90's and told in no uncertain terms that if they kept addressing environmental science and failed to sing the oil industry line (on remaining petroleum reserves as well as on the issue of global warming), then they would be dissolved, flushed, kaput — the Congressional funding would be cut off.

I didn't know what to say about the bill supported by the mainstream environmental groups as part of a deal with industry and Western States Petroleum Association, versus alternatives supported by harder - line enviros.

A new study prepared by the international consultancy ENVIRON for the American Petroleum Institute shows that the new regulations would provide little environmental benefit but will cost consumers and industry billions of dollars.

2008 Goldman Prize winner Marina Rikhvanova was awarded the Prize for her work to protect Siberia's Lake Baikal, one of the world's most important bodies of fresh water, from environmental devastation brought on by Russia's polluting petroleum and nuclear industries.

British Council, British Petroleum, Broom's Barn Sugar Beet Research Centre, Central Electricity Generating Board, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Commercial Union, Commission of European CommunitiesCEC, often referred to now as EU), Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), Department of Energy, Department of the Environment (DETR, now DEFRA), Department of Health, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Eastern Electricity, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Greenpeace International, International Institute of Environmental Development (IIED), Irish Electricity Supply Board, KFA Germany, Leverhulme Trust, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), National Power, National Rivers Authority, Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), Norwich Union, Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, Overseas Development Administration (ODA), Reinsurance Underwriters and Syndicates, Royal Society, Scientific Consultants, Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Scottish and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research, Shell, Stockholm Environment Agency, Sultanate of Oman, Tate and Lyle, UK Met.

Authors also included David Legates, who has received funding by various industry groups such as the American Petroleum Institute, Charles G. Koch Caritable Foundation, Southern Company, and Exxonmobil; William M. Briggs, a statistician; Michael Limburg, vice president of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) that has co-hosted climate change denial events with the Heartland Institute; Dietrich Jeschke from the University of Applied Sciences in Flensburg, Germany; and James Morrison, whose only listing is as an undergraduate in Environmental Scienes at the University of West Anglia.

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/energy/biofuels/energy-briefs/history-of-ethanol-production-and-policy «Today's ethanol industry began in the 1970s when petroleum - based fuel became expensive and environmental concerns involving leaded gasoline created a need for an octane.

Sources: Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers; Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on Environmental and Health Effects of Canadaâ $ ™ s Oil Sands Industry (December 2010); Energy Resources Conservation Board; Alberta Energy; National Pollution Release Inventory.

As Russia expanded its petroleum and nuclear interest, Marina Rikhvanova worked to protect Siberia's lake Baikal, one of the world's most important bodies of fresh water, from environmental devastation brought on by these polluting industries.

Of course, the American Petroleum Industry has fiercely opposed government regulation of greenhouse gas emissions — a sign that API is out of touch with environmental realities.

The mountains of money generated by the petroleum industry still persuade much more strongly than the climate change talk of green energy companies, even after environmental costs have been weighed.

In recent years, Lightfoot has been involved in mass tort environmental litigation across the Southeast involving underground contamination in the petroleum industry, the wood - treating industry, the equipment - manufacturing industry, and the fertilizer industry.

Most people think of a large manufacturing, mining or petroleum operation, but these are not the only industries at risk for environmental liability losses.

Dynamic and results - oriented professional with solid and diverse experience in managing overall operations and optimizing organizational processes particularly in Petroleum and environmental remediation services industry.