Sentences with phrase «drilling projects across»

Canadian and global petroleum companies have since spread mines and deep - drilling projects across northern Alberta's gargantuan reserve — oil sands production has nearly quadrupled since 2000 to about 2.5 million barrels per day.

Not exact matches

«Greenhouse gas emissions are going to go through the roof with a project of this kind,» said Wilderness Committee National Campaign Director Joe Foy «From escaped methane at the drill sites to the massive carbon emissions required to cool the gas, to more escaped methane on the long trip across the ocean to Asia and then the emissions from burning the gas.

Just across the street from our place was a massive ongoing construction project, and at 7 am every morning except for Sundays, the sound of drilling would wake us up as the workers started their day.

The Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 343 and 343T) installed a borehole temperature observatory 16 months after the March 2011 moment magnitude 9.0 Tohoku - Oki earthquake across the fault where slip was ~ 50 meters near the trench.

And it was recognized those actions were a crap shoot (Where good science and policy goes bad: de-salinization plants in Oz rather than managing episodic flooding, drilling 20,000 ′ below a seafloor 5,000 ′ under a precious biosphere to seek oil that is abundantl available on dry land, for examples), but can anyone name a project of doubt on the scale of this one where unspeakable trillions are to be spent, redistributed, productivity disincentized, where people's lives across the world will be thrown into uncertainty, where this trans - generational mindset will, by design, crush the willful and spirited energy and creativity of human kind until it is finally overthrown democratically or otherwise?