Sentences with phrase «by oil industry»

Mwd Field Engineers are employed by the oil industry and are responsible for performing drilling related - measurements.

Recent research, albeit backed by the oil industry, estimates that Falklands oil could be worth $ 180 billion in royalties and taxes for the U.K., potentially making it that country's answer to the shale boom that continues to generate work for many U.S. lawyers and their firms.

Attacks on electric cars by the oil industry are on a par with misinformation campaigns promoted by big tobacco companies and vested interests undermining climate science, according to Elon Musk, the serial entrepreneur who founded PayPal and the brains behind both the space exploration company SpaceX and the electric sports carmaker Tesla Motors.

As for the claim by oil industry that Keystone XL will create 119,000 total jobs — direct, indirect, and induced jobs — it is «based on flawed and poorly documented study commissioned by TransCanada (the Perryman Group study).

Time and again, the path forward has been blocked - not only by oil industry lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor.

The Tea Party's ascent has been bolstered by Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a political action committee founded and funded by oil industry interests, including billionaire oil executives Charles and David Koch.

But many legislators have been tasked with promoting the project by oil industry lobbyists who provide them with model bills, talking points and draft op - eds.

Many who criticise the science that claims to show that human activity is causing global warming are accused of being funded by the oil industry and free market think tanks who oppose the sort of government regulation that it seems will be necessary to implement large reductions in greenhouse gases, especially CO2

A senior scientist has condemned as a «deliberate effort to mislead» a series of television adverts produced by an oil industry - funded loyying group that seeks to portray concern over global warming as alarmism.

Carbon soot gets blame for Arctic Ice Melt: Oil industry and household stoves speed Arctic thaw Gas flaring by the oil industry and smoke from residential burning contributes more black carbon pollution to Arctic than previously thought — potentially speeding the melting of Arctic sea ice and contributing to the fast rate of warming in...

Members of Americans for Prosperity, a group founded and largely financed by oil industry interests, filed a lawsuit this week seeking to end New York State's participation in the 10 - state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Tainted water pours into a containment pond in a Unity field processing facility in what is now South Sudan, where there are concerns about the environmental damage being caused by the oil industry.

the President of the FOS admitted that about one - third of the funding for the FOS is provided by the oil industry.

Pat Michaels works for works for an «Institute» funded by the oil industry.

Dyson says it's only principle that leads him to question global warming: «According to the global - warming people, I say what I say because I'm paid by the oil industry.

Most people, perhaps even deniers knew these scientists were paid by the oil industry for spreading doubt & denial.

My latest study looked at the «climate change reality» constructed by oil industry in its corporate reporting, what language was used to create this reality, and how this changed over time.

Americans for Prosperity Foundation, founded by oil industry billionaire David Koch, has received the most funding from DT.

Scientists in New York are blaming global warming for upsetting the Nenana Ice Competition stating that a recent navel survey clearly indicated that the heat energy that would normally cause the river to release its life giving waters to the downstream environment had been redirected to deep ocean sequestation where it was being used by the oil industry to kill sharks.

In a January 28, 2007 article in the Toronto Star, the President of the FOS admitted that about one - third of the funding for the FOS is provided by the oil industry.

I guess we would be somewhat suspicious when a research paper sponsored by the oil industry concluded that gasoline powered cars are better for the environment than electric cars... Anyways, the embodied energy of batteries definitely makes electric cars less sustainable than is generally assumed.

Moreover, by applying the term «denial» (with all its loaded undertones) to sceptical scientists; by referring to them inaccurately as «well funded» by the oil industry; and by likening those who stress the uncertainties of climate science to unprincipled lobbyists for tobacco companies, Lord May enters on the field of personal vilification — not a suitable place for a distinguished former President of the Royal Society.

The EU must uphold its environmental credentials and stand up to the intense lobbying by the oil industry and the Canadian government,» said Franziska Achterberg of Greenpeace.

The US President made a point about economic leadership in the second debate, one Mitt Romney did not oppose: America's environmental and energy policy is determined by the oil industry; it's future is in wind, solar and nuclear.

The 67 - page suit claims that burning of fossil fuels marketed by the oil industry changes the climate and that these changes are «injuring New York City.»

Except, of course, when the science in question is funded by the oil industry.

But their popularity has attracted the attention of global warming sceptics funded by the oil industry, who have started to attack polar bear science.

Two days after his activity was revealed in 2005, he left the administration and was hired by oil industry giant ExxonMobil.

They have enlisted the help of conservative lobby groups funded by the oil industry to attack US government scientists if they produce work seen as accepting too readily that pollution is an issue.

And no, he's not funded by the oil industry or big business — the Toronto native is unpaid, living off his savings as he tends to his blog www.climateaudit.org.

this infographic, (an update of a 2012 version which featured only a «90 % consensus» in the left - side third box, basically identical to another 2012 variant) which portrays skeptics as crooks who've been bribed to lie by oil industry money.

His ethanol research is not funded by the oil industry.

However, a new report raises concerns that even McDaniel has been tainted by the oil industry when hired to help his investigation a firm known «for cover - up and not clean - up.»

The Zombie XL staggers onward, prodded and pushed by the oil industry and conservative lawmakers — yesterday, 44 senators signed on to legislation that would approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

Capturing and sequestering 16 % of current global annual CO2 output would entail managing a mass of material very close to the mass of the 80mb / d of crude oil handled by the oil industry's entire infrastructure heritage — which has taken over a century to build while being funded by the planet's most profitable enterprise.

Misrach chose the Mississippi River industrial corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — a 150 mile span that has been exploited relentlessly by the oil industry since the 1960s and is known alternately as the River Road, Chemical Corridor, and Cancer Alley — to examine human impact upon the landscape, and the detrimental effects of industrial pollution upon the region's inhabitants.

The low price of oil has had an effect on recreational property markets in regions where buyers are typically employed by the oil industry in both Western Canada and Newfoundland.

Boesch says the commission was «quite impressed» by the oil industry's efforts to improve safety, giving it a C +.

A two - year study of fracking wells in Los Angeles, conducted by consultants Cardno Entrix and funded by the oil industry, monitored 15 environmental factors before and after fracking, including groundwater chemistry, vibration at the surface and at depth, and methane release.

Formed toward the end of the 1950s, two of these groups remain active today: the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), which draws its primary strength from campesinos in the south, and the ELN (Army of National Liberation), whose strength is greater in the north among oil workers, indigenous groups defending their habitat against encroachment by the oil industry, and the Afro - Colombian population.

The kind of mindless environmental denial spewed by the oil industry and its press acolytes and paid - for «independent institutes» mirrors the kind of comments I read on my hobbyist US websites.

(This «Northern Gateway» pipeline is seen by the oil industry as an essential vehicle to develop new markets for Canadian petroleum, especially if the Keystone XL pipeline to move Alberta bitumen to the U.S. Gulf is not approved).

Enough public institutions were captured by the oil industry that a state within a state was created: a deep state.

Petrobras's participation in the ultra-deep water oil business remains mostly passive and is viewed by the oil industry as another form of royalty payment to the state.

Not exact matches

Fracking is part of the problem, but the report states that most human - induced quakes are caused by the oil and gas industry's use of injection wells to dispose of wastewater - the contaminated liquid that gets pumped out of the well during oil and gas extraction.

In Ottawa this past June, the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico pledged to work together to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry between 40 % and 45 % by 2025.

CALGARY — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promise to reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas industry is being welcomed by environmentalists and, with some reservations, by industry players, as a key step in fighting climate change.

«For engineers who are already working, we've created an Oil and Gas MOOC, in partnership with IFP énergies Nouvelles (IFPEN), to enable them to update their knowledge of the oil industry by taking online courses for four weeks.&raqOil and Gas MOOC, in partnership with IFP énergies Nouvelles (IFPEN), to enable them to update their knowledge of the oil industry by taking online courses for four weeks.&raqoil industry by taking online courses for four weeks.»

Sen. Vitter, a slavish advocate of oil industry and other corporate interests, broke the law prior to 2004 by patronizing prostitutes while a member of the House.

An Environmental Defense Fund - commissioned study by consultancy ICF International found that Canada's oil and gas industry could achieve a 45 per cent methane emission reduction at an average cost of $ 2.76 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent.