Sentences with phrase «against high gas»

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Although credit quality outside of CWB's portfolio of oil and gas loans remained stable, higher provisions for credit losses resulted from losses recorded against oil and gas loans.

Margins for meat packers have been declining for several months as consumers began to push back against high prices at retail in order to cope with rising gas prices.

We have: • normalized the domestic yield curve • issued the country's maiden 15 - year bond in April 2017 • improved external balances, driven by higher export earnings and lower imports • improved gross international reserves to US$ 7.2 billion, equivalent to 4.1 months of imports cover • improved primarybalanceto0.3 percent surplus in September 2017 against a deficit of 1.6 percent in September 2016 • received positive sovereign rating reviews from international ratings Agencies: Fitch, B / stable; Standard & Poor, B - / positive • successfully completed the 4th IMF / ECF program review, and • achieved positive developments in the oil & gas sector — favorable ITLOS ruling, and Sankofa producing 1st oil three months ahead of schedule.

V.I.D. has also been a leader in the fight against the Spectra pipeline, whose development unfortunately now allows high - pressure fracked gas to pass very near a playground on the West Village waterfront.

New York state's highest court struck a blow Monday for home rule and against fracking, deciding that municipalities can use zoning laws to ban the natural - gas extraction method that has fueled a U.S. energy boom.

Ed has a strong record, from voting against every bad budget since 2008, to implementing a Gas Tax Cap, to fighting high - density housing like Patrick Farms.

And ozone, which forms a beneficial shield against ultraviolet radiation when high in the stratosphere, is an efficient greenhouse gas when it appears at airliner altitudes — as it increasingly does, since it too is a by - product of fossil fuel burning.

Moreover, unlike sulfur dioxide, a volcanic gas that stands out against trace background levels, the atmosphere contains higher background levels of CO2, and winds disperse any injection quickly.

But the holiday will finally come to an end, schools will start to get meaningful ratings against high standards, and we'll see if that puts some gas in the student achievement engine.

Part of Lexus» future strategy is to take advantage of the move against diesel - powered cars in city centers because of their higher NOx emissions compared to hybrid - and gas - powered cars.

The problem is, inflation and high commodity prices — including oil and gas prices — tend to feed on each other in a vicious circle: people stock up on commodities to hedge against inflation, which leads to even higher prices, and thus inflation continues to rise.

The latest focal point was a United Nations Environment Program report on black carbon and ozone (which, besides being a powerful greenhouse gas is a beneficial shield against radiation high in the atmosphere but a noxious pollutant near the ground).

The proposed EPA rule is compared not only against the AEO2015 Reference case, but also against cases with higher macroeconomic growth or higher oil and natural gas resource availability assumptions.

In addition to driving more renewables and reducing emissions, an increased RPS policy can reduce wholesale electricity prices, act as a hedge against high, volatile natural gas prices, and add up to 3,000 jobs per year.

But those gas - fired plants face commodity and carbon price risks that will expose Albertans to higher electricity bills over the long term, something wind energy, with no fuel costs and no carbon emissions, can protect against.

bOB i would recomend against a range hood built into a microwave as most building codes say a hood should be about 30 inches above a gas range meaning your micro wave oven is now far to high for anyone not 6 feet tall.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

It's time religious leaders take a stand against fossil fuels With the moral issues in mind, Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate, called upon all religious leaders to take a public stand against fossil fuels, whose high emissions of greenhouse gases are said to increase the rate of climate change.

In fact, one key coal industry lobbying point against congressional climate action has been to warn that utilities» inevitable switch from carbon - intensive coal to natural gas would expose consumers to the risk of higher - priced electricity.

It's high time we started protesting against greenhouse gas emissions.

We'd become beach bums living on the proceeds of lawsuits against fast food companies in trailer parks complaining the government didn't do enough to protect us from big oil and bad weather, and was letting gas prices get too high.

The high efficiency, modular capability and low capital cost reduces cost over conventional nuclear by 30 % making it competitive against gas and coal fired plants.

Meanwhile, Seoul, the capital of South Korea is taking measures against global warming and responding to the high prices of gas by constructing more bicycle - only lanes throughout the city.

I worked out his equations in Excel, and a gas will move against a pressure gradient if it is moving with a temperature gradient: i.e., if the air is hotter than the water, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the water will be higher than in the air.

In 2011 API brought suit with other parties against the EPA over its authority to regulate greenhouse gases, stating that «EPA professes to be 90 to 99 % certain that «anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible for «unusually high planetary temperatures», but the record does not remotely support this level of certainty» (Goldman and Rogerson 2013), a statement that flew in the face of the prevailing scientific consensus (IPCC 2007).

The Orphan Well Association and Alberta Energy Regulator will face off against bankruptcy trustee Grant Thornton in court on Thursday, asking the high court to decide on the sale of a bankrupt company's oil and gas properties, and the costs of remediation for orphan wells.

Represented a certified class of consumers in the nationwide «hot fuel» class action against the oil industry for selling retail gas to consumers without adjusting the price to take account of lower fuel content of higher temperature gas.

Advising the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago in a mediation and ICC arbitration in a dispute with its contractor arising from the catastrophic failure of a pipe pullback operation for an LNG plant and the successful settlement of follow on Commercial Court claims against insurers before the English High Court.

Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon weighed in on Louisiana's comparatively high auto insurance rates on Monday (Feb. 17), noting a recent landmark suit filed by the East Bank levee board against oil and gas companies will help further a wider push to revisit tort reform during this year's legislative session.

To compete against high salaries available in oil and gas provinces such as Australia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, local employers are creating inventive strategies to convince workers to stay and to entice them back from assignments outside South America.