Sentences with phrase «whale oil from»

The trouble with Peak Oil predications is that they will be true one day but have been regularly made since mineral oil saved the whales by driving Whale oil from the market by selling at a lower price then Whale oil.

taust — «The trouble with Peak Oil predications is that they will be true one day but have been regularly made since mineral oil saved the whales by driving Whale oil from the market by selling at a lower price then Whale oil.

Ayoung Kim, Zepheth, Whale Oil from the Hanging Gardens to You, Shell 3, 2015 Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Each Number Equals One Inhalation and One Exhalation, 2016 - ongoing

Not exact matches

This has played out satisfactorily in the procession from wood to whale oil to coal to oil and natural gas, but the concept that no real substitute is available runs counter to capitalist ideals.

But in the nine years before Edwin Drake struck oil in 1859 in Pennsylvania and made kerosene ubiquitous, at least five - sixths of the whale oil — lighting market had already been lost to competing products made from coal.

Kerosene refined from such petroleum helped displace the whale oil that lit lamps in the 19th century and led to the near extinction of many whale species.

Habitat is being disturbed and polluted by offshore oil development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, and as CO2 warms our planet, the arctic ice pack is rapidly melting; the whales are in danger from noise, oil spills and deadly collisions with ships, while global warming is steadily melting their icy abode and reducing available food.

Other fats such as lard, tallow, sesame oil, perilla oil, whale oil, meat and egg yolk (all used in the traditional Japanese diet), and even from milk products (used in fairly large quantities today) will raise fat calories to something like 20 - 30 percent of the total.

In some instances, fish oil is extracted from seal or whale blubber.5

Do you ever wonder if we are just shifting one problem for the next, the way energy needs were shifted from hunting whales to drilling for oil?

The details about the whaling industry in Nantucket and how oil was extracted from the huge creatures are fascinating, as are the facts and speculation about the physical and psychological ramifications the disaster had on the crew.

More ships followed in the two following winters, after which gray whaling in the bay was nearly abandoned because «of the inferior quality and low price of the dark - colored gray whale oil, the low quality and quantity of whalebone from the gray, and the dangers of lagoon whaling.»

Dishonored 2 is a first - person steampunk stealth game set in a fictional city of Dunwall where technology and science are powered by oil harvested from a whale population that's now being driven to extinction.

Alongside the Turners, Hokanson has included: tools of the trade (a harpoon and oil lamps); brisk and all - but - abstract watercolor studies; an 1839 edition of The Natural History of the Sperm Whale by Thomas Beale (a book Turner was conversant with); and, yes, a copy of Moby Dick, from which is displayed an illustration of the great white whale by Rockwell Whale by Thomas Beale (a book Turner was conversant with); and, yes, a copy of Moby Dick, from which is displayed an illustration of the great white whale by Rockwell whale by Rockwell Kent.

Bug Cinema's work - in - progress is located in the Siuslaw Model Forest, from 25 June to 9 July Bug Cinema is a new ecological forest art commission for the Whale Oil to Whole Foods summer eco-arts festival in Greene County (Hudson Valley), on the edge of the Catskill Mountains, upper New York State.

We transitioned away from whale oil after discovering much more abundant and useful petroleum - derived kerosene, not because we were running out of whales.

While noise pollution from oil exploration is a major disruptive threat to sensitive beluga whales, the looming threat of an oil spill would be disastrous.

I can if I want, make diesel from vege oil (or whale blubber — ok, ok, we'll farm the whales so we do nt send them extinct).

Iceland imported eight tonnes of minke whale meat and blubber from Norway in two shipments in 2002, under their respective CITES reservations; Icland illegally exported 2.7 tons of whale oil to Belarus in 2006 and 2010 and 259 kg of whale meat to Latvia in 2010; Iceland exported 846,046 kg of «frozen whale meat and other products to Japan since 2008 (more than 90 percent in 2010) under their respective CITES reservations; Iceland has exported eight separate shipments of whale oil to Norway since 2008, totaling 708 kilograms, under their respective CITES reservations; Iceland has exported 1309 kilograms of whale meat to the Faroe Islands, a non-party to CITES.

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Our Coalition's energy spokesman, Bryan Leyland, has a guest post today in New Zealand's most widely read blog, «Whale Oil Beef Hooked» setting out issues with the Royal Society of New Zealand in relation to departures from its Code of Ethics.

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The IWC meeting in Morocco may have seen the failure of plans to compromise on commercial whaling, to bring Japan and other international law objectors back into the fold, but there is some more interesting news coming from Agadir: More whales are being killed by pollution, getting caught in nets and other threats than by commercial whaling; and, Russian oil exploration in the Pacific is threatening critically endangered grey whales.

Consider a case study of substitution offered by some of the Breakthrough Institute scholars who signed the Ecomodernist Manifesto: the replacement of whale oil by fuels such as kerosene, which, they argue, helped spare many species of whales from extinction at the harpoons of the whalers in the nineteenth century.

The menace of an oil spill from new Texas - bound tankers has nature - loving British Columbians rising up in opposition to expanded ocean traffic along the coast, that, amongst other environmental threats, endangers the killer whale population, the iconic Orcas.

Kinder Morgan's proposal to twin its existing Trans Mountain Pipeline would increase the amount of oil transported from Edmonton to Burnaby's Westbridge Terminal from 300,000 barrels per day to 890,000 barrels per day, and increase tanker traffic through part of the Southern Resident killer whales» critical habitat in the Salish Sea by nearly seven times, from 60 tankers per year to over 420.