Sentences with phrase «about offshore oil drilling»

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

Not exact matches

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....

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...

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.

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.

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 %).

«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.»

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.

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