Sentences with phrase «by big gas»

To posit the argument against fracking, a highly likable Dustin Noble (John Krasinski) acts as a roving environmentalist plastering signs about the town condemning the fracking, even accepting a bribe from Global's agents and, rather than keeping quiet, using the money to buy more signs opposing the offers by Big Gas.

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In the bar graph above, we can see that in the 12 months before the big decline in gas prices, real income increased by 2.4 %, and real spending by 2.7 %.

Electricity generated by solar panels and windmills has played a bigger role in the energy mix in recent years as the federal government and states seek to reduce heat - trapping gases through ambitious climate goals.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - U.S., British and French forces launched air strikes on Syria in response to a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of people, aiming to degrade its chemical weapons capabilities in the biggest intervention yet in the conflict by Western powers.

Had the deal closed, the sale of a half - interest in the Cutbank Ridge shale gas play would have been the largest investment of any kind by a Chinese state - controlled firm in Canada and the biggest reason to expect to see Asia - bound liquefied natural gas tankers docking on the West Coast in the not - too - distant future.

Responding to Tory charges that the NDP's proposed cap - and - trade system would wind up raising gas prices by 10 cents per litre, Jack Layton blamed Stephen Harper «s subsidies to big oil companies and support for the harmonized sales tax in Ontario for higher gas prices.

One of his biggest deals — the $ 41 billion buyout of XTO Energy in 2009 — was called by Tillerson himself ill - timed because it was done before natural gas prices bottomed out.

Under McClendon, Chesapeake Energy grew from a small operation into the second - biggest natural gas producer in the United States, exceeded only by Exxon Mobil, according to The New York Times.

By the mid 2020s, the IEA expects the U.S. to become the world's biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, demand for which is set to rise strongly as China, India, and Southeast Asia all turn away from coal to cleaner energy sources.

A plan outlined by the WA Government to reserve a big part of the State's gas reserves for the local market does not promote a robust and viable gas industry in Western Australia, according to the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Associatio

The state took over YPF, an oil and gas company owned by Spanish energy company Repsol, and she feuded with soy farmers (who grow one of Argentina's biggest exports.)

The push by the U.S. energy industry into hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling unleashed an energy boom, making the United States the world's biggest producer of natural gas and just recently the second - largest producer of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia.

By late 2013 he had reached the next rung: leading Bechtel's biggest business, oil and gas.

«Innovation's a big part of our whole corporate culture and part of what helps differentiate us,» says Carlson, pointing out that oil and gas companies can be risk - averse and sometimes late to exploit opportunities presented by technical advances.

By far the biggest revision, on a percentage basis, came in the mining sector, which isn't surprising; the oil and gas industry, which is part of the mining sector, has been extremely volatile in the past year due to tumbling oil prices.

HOUSTON ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and gas exploration and production company, posted a bigger - than - expected first - quarter profit on Thursday, helped by rising crude prices and cost cuts.

And low - cost gas operators Range Resources (NYSE: RRC) and Southwestern Energy (NYSE: SWN) may get acquired by bigger players.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailYou wouldn't know it from the media coverage, but the biggest energy story coming out of last week's visit to Canada by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had nothing to do with oil and gas prospects, or uranium.

A few big oil and gas deals have come out of the price rout — Royal Dutch Shell's acquisition of BG, worth $ 70 billion, is the largest by far — but more will likely take place in the near term.

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

The U.S. is by far the biggest customer for Canada's exports in natural gas, oil and hydropower.

Gorgon and Wheatstone are major contributors to the surge in LNG export earnings by Australia, which is vying to become the world's biggest producer of the super-cooled gas.

Petro China Co., the biggest oil - and - gas producer by volume in China, said its third - quarter net profit fell by more than 80 %.

The knee - jerk reaction of many Canadians, including Industry Minister Tony Clement, is to assume that high gas prices and inflated profit margins are likely to be explained by collusion among the big oil companies to fix prices at higher than acceptable levels.

Since this «Big Bang» galaxies, stars and planets have gradually congealed out of the gases released by that unique and momentous cosmic event.

PDX — It doesn't take a Genius to realize from my statements that i have read things other than the Bible you moron i have spent many hours reading and listening to scientists about their theories on the big bang, i have listened to ideas from the most revered scientists including Hawking and others, and they all admit that there are holes in their theories, that nothing fully explains their big bang theory, the physics doesn't add up let alone the concept, there are plenty of scientists hard at work trying to make the numbers fit and the theory hold weight but if you ask any of them they can not give you the answers and the reason being... there are none, the theory doesn't work, If by the observable laws of Physics, Matter in this Universe can not be created or destroyed, you can only change its state, i.e. solid to liquid, to gas... to energy... There is no explanation for how an entire reality full of Matter can be created out of nothing... Scientists know this... idiots that are atheists and simply would rather NOT believe that their lives and actions they take within their lifespan are being witnessed by an Omnipotent God do not WANT to believe... but Your belief in God does not change whether or not he exists you will be judged.

The big advantage with CO2 extraction is that by simply reducing the pressure, the carbon dioxide turns back to a gas and only the pure extract remains.

We've found that the top 20 meat and dairy companies emitted more greenhouse gases in 2016 than all of Germany, Europe's biggest climate polluter by far.

The marketing and advertising companies make it seem so, make them seem so attractive by buying into the biggest pain points that parents have which are: searching for that one bottle that will cause: less air, less gas, less fussier colicky like symptoms.

If your little one isn't a big burper, doesn't seem to be unusually bothered by gas pains and is gaining weight at the right pace for her age, it's nothing to be concerned about.

His biggest test is to finally stop promoting the burning of natural gas by banning fracking,» said Hawkins.

«Short of a major problem, Andrew will win by maybe 60 percent,» said billionaire businessman and real estate mogul John Catsimatidis, the chairman of oil, gas and real estate firm Red Apple Group and a big Cuomo supporter.

Among the questions asked by the press: whether the city is working with Mexican government officials to encourage any eligible Mexican nationals to register with the city for assistance, whether all victims have been located and identified, what is the biggest remaining challenge at the site, whether there are continuing concerns of gas leaking at the site, whether there is any evidence of illegal gas connections in the basements of the destroyed buildings, what damage or evidence the FDNY will look for, the number of people needing housing assistance, whether any victims asked about the investigation when meeting with the mayor, the number and location of apartments being made available by REBNY to temporarily house victims, what the mayor would say to any employer not granting time off to a victim and whether the mayor is concerned about the pace of gas main replacements.

He got time on Hubble to observe this strange object, now called Hanny's Voorwerp (which is Dutch for «thing»), and now we think we know what it is: a huge cloud of gas, as big as our own Milky Way, lit up by the nearby spiral!

It was the third - biggest American energy company by assets, according to the Oil and Gas Journal's 2014 Survey of Top 150 U.S. Oil & Gas Companies.

Small galaxies» visible gas may have been scoured away by million - degree coronas of nearby big galaxies

Of course, the extra heat trapped by human greenhouse gas emissions is likely to play a bigger role than raindrop friction in any atmospheric changes.

Nevertheless, those modest - size black holes left a big mark by performing a form of stellar birth control: Radiation from the trickle of material falling into the holes heated surrounding clouds of gas to about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, so hot that the gas could no longer easily coalesce.

The biggest news coming out of the one - day U.N. General Assembly summit on climate change was President Hu Jintao's announcement that China will seek to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by a «notable margin» relative to the 2005 level by 2020.

The biggest was certainly the decision by the Russian government to endorse the Kyoto Protocol, thus allowing the treaty to take effect and leaving the United States and Australia alone among industrial nations in their refusal to accept limits on greenhouse - gas emissions.

Combating the climate change caused by CO2 might prove the biggest role shale gas could play in China.

China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is betting on carbon trading as a key measure to cut its emissions for each unit of economic output 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

If that is successful — and everything thus far has been a big «if» — BP wants to create a more durable LMRP containment cap system by directing the oil and gas to a new free - floating riser ending about 90 meters below sea level (a flexible hose will be used to connect it to vessels on the surface).

Home boilers powered by the cells are cheap enough to begin rolling them out in their thousands this year, the start of a four - year programme to install 37,500 in the homes of customers of the UK's biggest energy supplier, British Gas.

Now, a new, computer simulation — based study suggests that these giants were formed and fed by massive clouds of gas sloshing around in the aftermath of the big bang.

Perry wants to cut the size of the Department of Education in half by consolidating its functions, and his energy policy is big on states» rights and freeing oil and gas companies to access existing resources.

From 1910 to 1945, the mercury rose at a rate of 0.16 °C per decade, driven by vigorous solar activity, the initial rise in industrial greenhouse gases, and fewer big eruptions.

But coal provides more than half of the electricity used by the U.S., and China builds the equivalent of two 500 - megawatt coal - fired power plants each week, helping keep these nations at the top of the list of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters.

A June 2017 study by the Center for Arctic, Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE) concluded those unexpected methane blasts, rather than gradual releases, are a big problem.

The light emitted by old stars and clumps of hot pristine gas from the early universe suggest helium made up some 25 per cent of the ordinary matter created during the big bang.