Sentences with phrase «arctic drilling»

Unfortunately, we keep doing everything we can to postpone that hangover, thanks to hair - of - the - dog innovations like fracking and arctic drilling aimed at squeezing those last bits of hydrocarbons out of rocks and seabeds.

Since the peak of crude oil production a decade ago, the fossil fuel industry has been forced to resort to costly and unconventional methods of extraction — arctic drilling and shale gas fracking among them — giving rise to unprecedented economic and environmental hazards.

He's pushed arctic drilling and the tar sands.

Engineers will agnostically build tar sand refineries, or solar power plants, or arctic drilling rigs, or windmills, or lead cooled liquid metal fast breeder reactors.

by Deborah McNamara on January 2, 2014 0 arctic drilling environmental issues EPA greenhouse gas emissions Keystone XL pipeline National Journal ozone rule renewable energy standard

The future of arctic drilling, along with hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract shale gas, remains highly controversial and many protest that the resulting environmental damage can not be justified.

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Rather, on production side people will start wondering if drilling arctic is maybe less risky.

As ice melts and shipping becomes easier and at some point, oil drilling in the arctic ocean will probably increase, Having a strong military will benefit Russia.

In Ratchet and Clank 2: Locked and Loaded — known as Going Commando for those outside Australia / Europe — there were challenges where you explored deserts and arctic worlds looking for raritanium crystals and gathering them with a giant drill.

Am I the only one who's apparently not excited about the mapping and drilling possibilities of * THE ARCTIC ICE MELTING AWAY *?

The Norwegian government has announced that the arctic Lofoten islands will be protected against oil and gas drilling for at least the next four years.

Anyone planning to make a killing in arctic off - shore drilling in the near future is going to take a hit.

If world leaders in Paris are serious about holding global temperatures from warming above 2 C, drilling in the arctic would be impossible as well as 75 percent of drilling of Canadian oil, according to a study by the University College of London.

Though the dirty energy industries» dislike of Obama seems a bit misplaced, (between allowing widespread fracking and his support of drilling offshore and in the arctic, Obama has given the fossil fuel lobby plenty) it does make sense that they would support Mitt Romney.

There's oil under the arctic ice, and plenty of extracting conglomerates ready to drill it.

Topics this week include conservation and wildlife in the UK, North Sea oil drilling, arctic ice and the oil spill in New Zealand.