Sentences with phrase «as oil depletion»

So if we are to maintain mobility and things like shipping food to our stores, we have to be building rail capacity to expand at that same rate (or faster) as oil depletion.

Not exact matches

This project is critical to the future of Baghdad's oil industry as it will supply well injection water to six fields in southern Iraq to boost yields and slow depletion.

Additionally, researchers saw that the water depletion rates for each state in the High Plains Aquifer follow a similar bell - shaped curve pattern as the one for oil depletion in the U.S. modeled by the Hubbert peak theory.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

A multi-disciplinary endeavour with longtime collaborators Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, the Anthropocene exhibition will feature images exploring diverse subjects such as urbanisation, industrialisation and extraction, from oil bunkering and sawmills in Nigeria to the salt mines of the Ural Mountains; at once conveying the sublime qualities of human - marked landscapes and the unsettling reality of sweeping resource depletion.

many of the peak oil theorists (with whom i agree as to the imminent reality of hubbert's peak) seem to be looking forward to the skyrocketing price of oil, as depletion reality sets in and we start down the long slope of hubbert's peak.

A ban follows from the 1) accelerating impacts of global warming, 2) the accelerating depletion, due now to demand and soon depletion, of the petroleum resource, and 3) oil wars such as that in Iraq.

The ecological limits of the planet are now in clear view, as expressed by the combination of climate change, peak oil (the end of the era of cheap energy), and overall global resource depletion and extinctions.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

Oil depletion studies commonly focus on the supply of conventional petroleum without as much attention to the other side of the equation, which is petroleum demand.

In any case, I and a few others will continue to use mathematical models of fossil fuel depletion to anticipate what the future production levels of place such as the Bakken formation hold for oil and natural gas.

Portrayal of concern for peak oil as a «chicken little», «Cassandra» and «boy who cried wolf» phenomenon by a credible news source effectively erases what nagging concern or belief about oil depletion someone had started to foment.

Cons: typically uses HCFCs as blowing agents, which have high global warming potential and moderate ozone depletion, flammable and produces toxic fumes when burned, made from crude oil byproducts, all brands of XPS sold in US include HBCD which causes concern to EPA as well as others, protective gear is recommended to be worn during cutting and installation.

Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

The task force recommends that Oakland investigate the feasibility of setting tax rates to that which is necessary to yield the recommended 3 % oil consumption reduction per year (as mandated by the Oil Depletion Protocooil consumption reduction per year (as mandated by the Oil Depletion ProtocoOil Depletion Protocol).

The GPI, by contrast, counts the depletion or degradation of wetlands, forests, farmlands and nonrenewable minerals (including oil) as current cost.

«Using tar sands and oil shale as energy sources while ignoring climate disruption, air pollution, water pollution, resource depletion, and conservation measures is like pissing in the wind.»

The same mitigation factors are in place for oil depletion as for global warming — that is a concerted effort to reduce our dependence on hydrocarbons and to plan for alternative energy sources.

This is especially true of the fossil fuel industry, whose subsidies include such things as a depletion allowance for oil pumping in the United States.