Sentences with phrase «by petrochemical industries»

Though these lands have been colonized and re-colonized, contaminated and industrialized by petrochemical industries, Vicuña seems to signal a way through all the madness of the Occident: a path of survival, a series of gestures that add up to something much larger than one person or one exhibition.

They add that thousands of sites are «contaminated by the petrochemical industry, often in highly populated areas.»

Ironically, the long decline of classical Malthusianism reached its peak with the green revolution — a turning point that itself was made possible by the petrochemical industry.

It would be interesting to know how many of that List of 20 have failed grant applications (or successful ones, for that matter) with foundations heavily supported by the petrochemical industry.

Not exact matches

The Saudi stock index was flat, restrained by a 1.9 percent drop by top petrochemical producer Saudi Basic Industries, which fell 2.1 percent after reporting lower - than - expected fourth - quarter earnings.

Former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed is credited with building a world - class petrochemical industry by putting policies in place to block such exports.

It's also one of the top manufacturing centers for rubber products, insecticides, fertilizers and petrochemicals, which are all by - products of the oil and gas industries.

Artificial vanillin is produced as a by - product of the wood industry or from petrochemicals.

It's commonly used for environmental and health analyses, as well as by industry for pharmaceutical and petrochemical product development.

Combined with the data from the Clapham pond you can reach, (using units which at one time yielded acres per fortnight to my great amusement, thank you Benjamin Franklin,) I hope, the same conclusion as I, namely that by the time the petrochemical industry hit its stride it had altered the ocean surface catastrophically.

Incidentally, I have been unable to find out if the models which are producing the GW scenarios include some allowance for the fact that the ocean / atmosphere interface (the boundary layer, so called, an irritating nomenclature as the words already have a technical meaning) was changed drastically from about 1850 onwards by surfactant and oil spill pollution as the petrochemical industry and petrol engine technologies began to hit their stride.

In the petrochemical industry, moving to the most efficient production technologies now available and recycling more plastic can cut energy use by 32 percent.

Boosted by economic growth in Asia and a resurgent petrochemicals industry in the United States, global oil demand will increase by 6.9 mb / d by 2023 to 104.7 mb / d, according to the IEA.

Only mislead fools would make an industry of destroying ancient forests to make disposable toxic trash from trees with such an intensive petrochemical process fueled by such limited resources as fossil fuels... while BIODEGRADABLE hemp can be RECYCLED into organic paper many times.

Worldwide, increasing recycling rates and moving to the most efficient manufacturing systems in use today could reduce energy use in the petrochemical industry by 32 percent.

It is worth noting that power exerted by an elite few was responsible for hemp's prohibition, whether this is attributed primarily to the circumstantial evidence implying industry lobbying on behalf of petrochemicals versus the Chemurgy movement, or to the clear proof of hemp falling victim to anti-drug hysteria.

The Clinton proposal was vigorously opposed by energy - intensive industries, like petrochemicals, that believe their products would lose a competitive edge in international markets, and by states where those industries are concentrated.

Corpus Christi has grown into a regional center for marketing and distribution of agricultural commodities and boasts a local economy largely driven by tourism and the oil and petrochemical industries.

It's also one of the top manufacturing centers for rubber products, insecticides, fertilizers and petrochemicals, which are all by - products of the oil and gas industries.

Petroleum wax, also known as paraffin wax, is a by - product of the petrochemical industry... it is a residual from another manufacturing process.