Sentences with phrase «after the oil boom»

Small business owners began struggling after the oil boom turned to gloom in 2014.

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But after the bust comes the boom: Expect soaring crude prices later this decade as demand from fast - growing Asia collides with greatly diminished supply — a classic bust - boom cycle with which the oil industry was all too familiar 100 years ago but may have forgotten since.

My experience from previous booms and busts is that they will find their balance after creating chaos everywhere and as soon as the oil prices go back up they will resume their old ways and blame the royalties again for the disaster.

When the Opposition leader noted in the House of Commons, in 2012, that a federal study had shown that Canada was falling prey to «Dutch disease» (named after the 1960s oil boom, which devastated other exports in the Netherlands), Conservative MP Kellie Leitch offered the government's response: «The leader of the Opposition wants to call Canadian employers a disease.»

Booms deployed into the Hudson River after a fire at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant caused an oil overflow (credit: CBS2)

After the spill BP responded with thousands of cleanup people, thousands of boats and thousands of kilometers of oil - containment booms.

It served travelers to and from Burkburnett from its conception, through the oil boom and after.

The boom from the first oil find was so spectacular that after the hundreds of wells already put in had begun to run dry, drillers attempted to expand their area of operations uncomfortably close to Santa Barbara.

Imagine if, after the next Deepwater-esque oil spill, we simply deployed a fleet of inflatable sailboats, equipped with oil - sucking booms, that would autonomously sail to the spill and soak up the oil.

After a two hour boat ride, we saw the the booms deployed around the marshland were indeed already collecting oil.

After the fire and flood, oil was found 100 miles from Dallas, sparking the oil boom.

At its founding, Enid was a major rail hub located in the heart of wheat county, and its population continued to blossom well after the Oklahoma oil boom ended.

Finally, the chart is not immune to temporary events like the Texas oil boom of the late 1970s and early «80s, which caused housing prices in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio to peak just after 1980.