Sentences with phrase «drilling permits»

No new fossil fuel power plants, no new extraction projects, no new pipelines, no new drilling permits, no new fossil fuel financing.

After a meaningless moratorium that was more symbolic than anything else, our government decided to speed up the offshore oil drilling permitting process.

He nonetheless called for more study before drilling permits are issued.

Now, today, we're working to expedite new drilling permits for companies that meet these higher standards.

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.

Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, is doing everything she can to fight the Interior Department's continuing moratorium on new drilling permits in the Gulf.

Whether the Assembly and governor do what the state Senate just did and approve a moratorium on drilling permits until May, the state Department of Environmental Conservation won't be ready with new drilling regulations until at least then.

If fracking is to take place, Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation has said it will need to increase staff beyond the present 16 employees who are authorized to issue gas drilling permits.

Clearly, this is a tactic to delay the issuance of drilling permits in New York's Southern Tier and is not intended to facilitate a meaningful discussion,» continued Gill.

The Texas Railroad Commission has approved drilling permits from a total of 352 different private and public companies, ranging from supermajors to tiny private companies.

John Proust, Chairman and CEO of Japan Gold, stated, «Award of our first drilling permit is a significant milestone for Japan Gold.

Twenty - seven companies have received drilling permits in Loving County this year.

The RRC has issued 6,262 drilling permits so far this year.

But companies need to continuously drill new wells to fuel this growth, which requires companies to obtain drilling permits from the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC).

In total, there are 59 different private and public companies with drilling permits in Reeves County.

He says Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation needs to take historic resources into account when it finally issues well drilling permits, to determine when the number of wells reaches a tipping point, and then place limits if the concentration of industry will damage a region's historical character.

Yes, we supported the bill, which suspended new drilling permits through May 15 in gas reservoirs like the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale formations.

The state of New York has stopped issuing horizontal drilling permits for the Marcellus Shale while it completes an environmental review.

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.

She placed a hold last week on the nomination of Jacob Lew to be Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and announced this week that she will block a vote on the Senate floor to confirm Lew until the Obama Administration starts issuing drilling permits again.

May 11 (UPI)-- Already home to about half of all the rig activity in the country, the Texas state government reported drilling permits jumped more than 30 percent.

In response to the BP drilling disaster, we specifically urge you to establish a presidential drilling moratorium which would permanently restore coastal protections for areas currently not leased for off shore oil and gas drilling, and cancel exploratory drilling permits for the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

There are currently 58 gas drilling permit requests pending approval with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC).

The Company has now been awarded its first drilling permit and we are very excited to begin the drilling program at the Akebono prospect.»

Some Offshore Oil Drilling Permitted... In the new bill, areas in the Gulf of Mexico would be opened up for drilling by the federal government.

A total of 34 different companies have received drilling permits from the Railroad Commission in the Midland basin in 2017.

In April, Joe Martens, the commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, said his agency would consider local wishes when it decides on drilling permits.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday announced that there would be tough new safety rules on offshore drilling that would have to be complied with fully by existing operations before new drilling permits would be issued.

The Department of Mineral Resources stated that there were 66 drilling permits issued in April, and 42 in May.

The federal government in Brasilia quietly reassured the oil community that drilling permits were under federal jurisdiction and that they should simply ignore the howls of discontent from local officials.

Pioneer (ticker: PXD) and XTO (ticker: XTO) are tied for first place in the basin, with 100 drilling permits each.

Drilling permits have been approved in all but five of these counties, though activity concentrates in a few key locations.

With a total of 377 drilling permits approved, Anadarko (ticker: APC) is the biggest operator in the Permian by permitting activity.

Like Reeves County, Midland County has three primary operators, each of which has received around 100 drilling permits this year.

Anadarko dominates, with 181 drilling permits, or nearly one - third of all permits in the county.

November 28, 2017 — Vancouver, BC — Japan Gold Corp. (TSX - V: JG)(OTCQB: JGLDF)(«Japan Gold» or the «Company») is pleased to announce that it has been granted a drilling permit for the Akebono prospect at the Company's Ikutahara Project in Hokkaido, Japan, and the drilling program has commenced.

A drilling permit was granted and the Company's first scout drilling program was completed at the Akebono prospect in December 2017.

NEWS RELEASE November 28, 2017 — Vancouver, BC — Japan Gold Corp. (TSX - V: JG)(OTCQB: JGLDF)(«Japan Gold» or the «Company») is pleased to announce that it has been granted a drilling permit for the Akebono prospect at the Company's Ikutahara Project in Hokkaido, Japan, and the drilling program has commenced.

The Company has been granted its first drilling permit and the drilling program has commenced at the Ikutahara Project.

A drilling permit has been granted and an initial scout drilling program was completed at the Akebono prospect at the Ikutahara Project in December 2017.

«The issuance of the drilling permit and plans for Phase 1 exploration drilling program at Copper Duke is a milestone for the company as it represents the beginning of testing of one of the world's best undrilled gold - copper porphyry targets,» said Core Gold CEO Keith Piggott.

His suit was ultimately dismissed when a state Supreme Court judge ruled he didn't have standing to sue because he never formally applied for a drilling permit, a decision that was upheld by the Appellate Division earlier this year.

A group of pro-drilling environmentalists organizations (including the Natural Resources Defense Council) asked Governor Paterson to tell DEC to set aside the review, put a 12 - month moratorium on issuing new drilling permits, and work with experts from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to create a new environmental impact statement.

With an oil company determined to explore in the park, a major report from UNESCO, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is calling for its drilling permits to be revoked.