Notable examples include acting for accountants in long - running litigation arising out of a failed tax avoidance scheme; acting for the developer and manufacturer of an offshore drilling system following an accident in operation; representing one of the Defendants in Novoship v Mikhaylyuk & Others, concerning allegations of bribery and secret profits; appearing in a substantial LCIA arbitration about the theft of oil stocks in East Africa;, successfully representing a broker in litigation against a former client under a futures brokerage contract in Sucden v Fluxo - Cane [2010] 2 CLC 216; and The «Ekha» [2011] 1 All ER Comm 1077, long - running litigation in the Commercial Court and Court of Appeal
about an offshore drilling contract.
Both Democratic and Republican politicians are up in arms
about the offshore drilling moratorium, attacking the president for suspending further operations in deep waters.
From the fall of 2008 to early this year, opinion
about offshore drilling had been fairly stable.
I share people's concerns
about offshore drilling.
, rallied with Al Gore
about offshore drilling and met with several prominent African - American clergy about school funding transparency.
Not exact matches
Learn more
about the Save Our Waters bill, which will protect NY from
offshore drilling.
He sent a letter to Donald Trump
about gun control, held a conference call with Sen. Amy Klobuchar
about election security, rallied with Al Gore against
offshore drilling and, of course, started picking on de Blasio again.
In Antarctica's cold, where fish have natural antifreeze in their blood, McClintock accompanied other researchers as they angled for giant Antarctic toothfish by dropping a 450 - meter - long line through a meter - wide hole
drilled in the sea ice
about five kilometers
offshore.
So while I love the bargain approach to buying ships below scrap value,
drilling rigs when it was unprofitable to
drill offshore, and pipelines when no one else wanted them, I wouldn't be excited
about owning them permanently.
If you are serious
about going into
offshore drilling, you won't find a cheaper ticket.
March 4: Film screening of Shore Stories, 6 short documentary films
about the impact of
offshore oil
drilling.
In a hearing this morning, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is set to examine various issues related to
offshore oil and gas exploration and to grill executives from BP, Halliburton and Transocean
about the fatal and environmentally calamitous destruction of the Deepwater Horizon
drilling rig.
Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf,
offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce
about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....
I am still reeling from the shock of McCain's announcement
about offshore oil
drilling.
This ignorance leads to radio ads decrying NIMBYism as the only reason for disallowing
offshore drilling, even while these rich landowners still don't allow any wind / solar where they can see, make up all sorts of lies
about wind / solar, while bush refuses to give equal subsidies to «alternative» energy and refuses to tax windfall profits to oil companies, who break records year after year in profits...
That translates into individual action and political pressure for our representatives to «do something», which leads to the endless political posturing
about offshore oil
drilling.
I wrote
about that issue just this morning (I won't even try to include that link; it's the «
Offshore (and ANWR) oil
drilling, again» post, for those who care), and concluded that we will indeed
drill in ANWR and those currently pristine
offshore areas in time.
At current consumption, the US uses
about 8 billion barrels of oil per year; conventionally recoverable oil from
offshore drilling is thought to be 18 billion barrels total, not per year.
But the four prongs of the speech were not
about using less fuel, but boosting supplies:
drilling offshore, extracting oil from shale,
drilling on the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and adding refineries.
The Surfrider Foundation is using this year's Hands Across The Sand event to raise awareness on «Three Essential Truths»
about new
offshore drilling: it will not reduce the price at the pump; it will not eliminate America's reliance on foreign oil; and it is an inherently risky activity that causes significant impacts to the environment through every stage of the
drilling process.
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.
«We thought
about it long and hard, and decided to get involved in this because the U.S. has the largest number of these wells and it is better than
drilling offshore or in Alaska,» Dr. Pachauri said.
It is inconceivable that legislation raising energy prices that much will ever pass Congress — witness the
about - face of Democrats to the Republican push for
offshore oil
drilling — even under a Democratic president and Congress.
I am in Washington, D.C. on a trip to talk with Congressmen and Senators from South Carolina
about the need to protect the Southeast coast from the impacts of
offshore drilling.
The plan, released by the Department of Interior through BOEM, would open up just
about every U.S. shore for
offshore drilling.
On January 4, 2018, the Trump Administration released a new draft plan that would open up just
about every U.S. shore for
offshore drilling.
Pletnikoff is especially concerned
about how his people will handle any
offshore drilling to come.
Our opportunity here isn't only
about protecting the ocean waters of America, marine life, a favorite surf break, jobs or a given beach community; it's
about demanding that our government utilize the best available science and data and listen to the massive outpouring of public opposition to destructive
offshore oil and gas development, to shift the tides of energy development instead away from fossil fuels and toward renewables; it's
about holding our President and federal agencies accountable for decisions they make
about the management of the ocean; it's
about protecting the ocean and every coastline from the atrocity and injustice of
offshore drilling and exploration; it's
about protecting clean water, air and beaches now and for the future; it's
about protecting one another, and the Earth.
These critical messages are consistent with and complimentary to Surfrider Foundation's Clean Water Initiative, which focuses on protecting water quality in coastal watersheds and in the near - shore marine environment, and the Foundation's «Not The Answer» campaign, which focuses on raising awareness
about the negative environmental and economic impacts of
offshore oil
drilling.
At a current oil price of
about $ 46 per barrel, there's little chance that there will be a big push toward development, but as soon as prices range upward of $ 80 per barrel, that could change — plus, some of the policy barriers may be coming down, Zukunft said, referring to the Trump administration's moves to enable
offshore Arctic
drilling.
Although desirable when speaking
about solar energy deployment, or adoption of smart meters, the maxim «As California Goes, So Goes the Nation» is not the aspiration when it comes to
offshore oil
drilling and its inevitable spills and economic and ecological impacts.
The Natural Resources Defense Council applauded it — with reservations
about the expanded
offshore oil
drilling and the lack of minimum performance standards for the largest carbon polluters.
«If we are serious
about moving beyond oil toward energy independence, lowering the cost of energy, combating climate change, and cutting carbon pollution emissions, then we must ban
offshore drilling,» it read.
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.
A few weeks ago I wrote
about a TV ad which the McCain campaign was running which, in short, said that 1)
drilling for oil in
offshore areas which are currently off limits is the solution to reducing high gasoline costs in the United States, and 2) that Barack Obama is the sole reason these areas are off limits.
If Barack Obama were saying, as John McCain has, that
offshore oil
drilling will reduce energy prices in the short term, or that it is a real solution to U.S. energy independence, then I might feel more strongly
about this.
To illustrate, I bring you the 7 stupidest things said
about the BP oil spill so far... Some of these statements are made out of pure ignorance, while others are clearly intended to downplay the impact of the event, and any ramifications it might have on
offshore drilling in general.
So what bill is Obama talking
about and what's in it that would give him pause to reconsider opposition to
offshore oil
drilling?
A few weeks ago I wrote
about a TV ad which the McCain campaign was running which, in short, said that 1)
drilling for oil in
offshore areas which are currently off limits is the solution to reducing high gasoline costs
About three quarters (74 %) consider increasing our use and production of alternative energy sources to be more important than increasing
offshore oil
drilling (15 %).
Jeff Ruch of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which provided Monnett legal representation, said that Monnett leaked the emails under the Bush administration to expose suppression of scientists» concerns
about the environmental risks of
offshore drilling in the Arctic.
The Obama Administration has been pretty upfront
about its support for an energy policy that promotes both clean energy technologies and renewed investment in old technologies such as nuclear, coal and
offshore drilling.
«A proposal for the first oil and gas
drilling in federal
offshore waters of the Arctic took a step forward Thursday as regulators released a draft environmental impact statement, which reflects concerns
about the effects of the project on marine life and local communities.»
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