Sentences with phrase «by drilling permits»
Oil companies have also combined to create a Center for Offshore Safety in Houston, Texas, which is developing the environmental safety management systems now required by drilling permits.
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There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward - looking statements, including, but not limited to: uncertainties involving interpretation of drilling results, environmental matters, lack of ability to obtain required permitting, equipment breakdown or disruptions, and the other factors described in Paramount's disclosures as filed with the SEC.
The governor has said he'll decide whether or not to permit the gas drilling in the state by late February, when the 90 day extension of a rulemaking process runs out.
Groups for and against fracking are gearing up for an announcement by Governor Cuomo's environmental officials on whether the natural gas drilling process will be permitted in New York on a limited basis.
As you might know, Governor Cuomo is considering permitting fracking in New York, a dangerous way of drilling for gas by pumping toxic chemicals through our drinking water.
Cuomo has said his administration will issue a long awaited health report on fracking by the end of the year, and announce whether gas drilling will be permitted in New York.
From an offshore drilling moratorium to a de facto one put in place through the permitting and leasing process, American energy and the jobs it creates have too often been pushed aside by the Obama administration and its allies in Washington.
Homebuilders found they could circumvent limits on groundwater pumping for large residential developments by building just a few homes at a time, because single homes could drill new water wells without a permit.
An analysis by an environmental group finds hundreds of cases in which drillers used diesel fuel without obtaining permits and sometimes altered records
$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.
Though the art piece is in the northern part of the lake and remotely - located from any town or road, the plans to drill for oil five miles out by Canadian company Amoco have sparked protest from across the world, prompting the state to postpone the decision for a permit.
But news releases on task force meetings reflect a focus on streamlining the permit process that, by speeding the expansion of drilling, could guarantee that innovations to cut flaring continue to lag.
Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, slams a bill promoted by his own party leadership that would speed up lease sales and permitting for offshore oil drilling.
And according to the Bureau of Land Management, the number of drilling permits issued on federally controlled onshore land dropped by 47 percent from 2008 to 2015.
The amount of water required to drill all 2916 of the Marcellus wells permitted in Pennsylvania in the first 11 months of 2010 would equal the amount of drinking water used by just one city, Pittsburgh, during the same period, says environmental engineering professor Jeanne VanBriesen, the study's lead author.
As we fill our vehicles with gasoline and watch the cost numbers whirl with artificially inflated prices, we might ponder, just why is it that, by refusing permits, our government did not allow us to drill for oil off the coast of Virginia?
The administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling and the slow pace of new permitting since the ban was lifted in October are projected to cut production there by 20 percent in 2012.
He permitted it to rubber - stamp dangerous drilling operations by BP — a firm with the worst safety record of any oil company — with virtually no environmental safeguards, using industry - friendly regulations drafted during the Bush years.
If New York eventually does permit shale gas development, the scientific monitoring done by USGS prior to any drilling will have established a critical monitoring benchmark.
He promises to ask Trans - Canada to re-apply for its permit for the rejected Keystone Pipeline, which proposed to move tar sands oil in massive pipes through the Midwest down to the Gulf Coast, and he supports drilling off the Atlantic coast, which was halted by the Obama Administration earlier this year.
The exploration drilling authorized by the permit is on lands important to Eabametoong for the ongoing exercise of their Aboriginal and Treaty rights.