Sentences with phrase «doing offshore oil drilling»
The story shows how companies doing offshore oil drilling had shifted progressively to cutting the risk of failure by adding a second blind shear ram to blowout preventers.
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At the same time, he said he didn't think the president would use the state as a case study against oil development, considering the recent decision to allow exploratory offshore drilling near Alaska.
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This ignorance leads to radio ads decrying NIMBYism as the only reason for disallowing offshore drilling, even while these rich landowners still don't allow any wind / solar where they can see, make up all sorts of lies about wind / solar, while bush refuses to give equal subsidies to «alternative» energy and refuses to tax windfall profits to oil companies, who break records year after year in profits...
That translates into individual action and political pressure for our representatives to «do something», which leads to the endless political posturing about offshore oil drilling.
Studies have shown that new offshore drilling will do little to reduce our dependency on foreign oil, and minimize prices at the gas pump.
«With less than 3 % of the world's oil in our offshore areas, it's obvious that drilling will not solve our energy crisis but does jeopardize our coastal communities and economies.»
It has long been the common practice to grant offshore oil and gas drillers such exclusions, and it probably had little to do with the disaster that BP's alleged shoddy drilling practices has precipitated.
Not only does more extreme weather threaten infrastructure like offshore oil platforms, but more droughts from global warming can create water stress, affecting hydropower and limiting resources for drilling.
He's held Big Oil and other polluters accountable for their actions, and fought against expanded offshore drilling in the Arctic, by showing that the industry is not technologically prepared to do so.
HEMP is a good answer — no wars were fought for hemp and cooking oil, no harmful pipelines were built and leaked for that oil, no ocean life was ruined due to offshore drilling, no one's health was effected for that vegetable oil, the air is cleaner with that oil due to no green house gases released — this oil can be recycled from our food — hemp can replace fibers, pulp, plastics and it still makes food and grows in under 3 months (and it does not need much water, no fertilizer and cleans the air!!
In doing so, he ignored his administration's top experts on ocean science, who warned that the offshore plan dramatically understated the risks of an oil spill and petitioned Salazar to exempt the Arctic from drilling until more scientific studies could be conducted.
For his part, though Barack Obama has indicated in speeches that, as part of compromise legislation, he wouldn't be entirely opposed to offshore oil drilling, he does acknowledge the very real limitations of doing so.