Sentences with phrase «fuel extraction»

This is a good thing, but we don't need to rely on new fossil fuel extraction projects to achieve those benefits.

It was an outrageous decision, particularly coming from an agency that has fallen over itself to facilitate fossil fuel extraction on public lands.

The least state / territory governments should do — and it would be relatively easy really — is to ban any NEW fossil fuel extraction projects.

At least 22 other major fossil fuel extraction companies paid no income tax in 2015 - 16 despite together earning an income of $ 51 billion in that year.

We already know we are moving to a low - carbon economy, so any new investment into expensive fossil - fuel extraction doesn't make much sense.

Other people who worked in the construction industry during the last boom may have moved on to other sectors, such as the fossil fuel extraction business.

We don't shy away from the depressing parts, which is how dire the situation is, especially for communities living on the front lines of fossil fuel extraction.

The questionable future of the Athabasca River threatens the longevity of fossil fuel extraction in the world's third - largest crude oil reserve.

The campaign launched last week with a letter demanding that Brown halt the development of all new dirty fuel projects in California, create a plan to phase out all fossil fuel extraction as quickly as possible and provide support and opportunities for those most impacted by the transition.

The Paris Agreement introduced the concept of «carbon neutrality» which allows business as usual, shifts the responsibility, and doesn't stop fossil fuel extraction like we need (while at the same time opening the door for dangerous geoengineering which is not safe or proven).

(Investors to watch include Storebrand, which is no longer lending to certain fossil fuel extraction methods, and Rabobank, which decided to stop loans to companies engaged in shale gas extraction.)

While fracking has become a focal point in conversations about methane emissions, it certainly appears from this and other studies that in the U.S., fossil fuel extraction activities across the board likely emit higher than inventory estimates.»

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

Proceeds go toward our initiatives to protect sacred lands, stop extreme fossil fuel extraction at the source by supporting frontline Native communities, and to cultural revitalization initiatives.

What: Activists will greet Gov. Brown with banners outside his scheduled appearance at the National Press Club to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects in California and a plan to phase out the state's dirty fuel extraction.

Now, two major Commonwealth nations (Canada, Australia) are governed by political parties that are lock - step with fossil fuel extraction industries and the Australian government seems -LSB-...]

Management chose to ignore those warnings and continued pursuing fossil fuel extraction unabated, while spreading climate science disinformation and downplaying the risks of fossil fuels.

Fossil fuel extraction costs will keep rising.

But given its self - professed mandate, it seems odd the CTF wouldn't be troubled by the potential costs of industry strategies to maximize profits as fossil fuel extraction enters its twilight years, as a case can be made is happening.

Once the researchers balanced the equation, they found that the world's biggest economies — the United States, the European Union, the Middle East, Russia, China and Japan — together account for 59 percent of the total difference between fossil fuel extraction emissions and emissions from the production of goods.

Titanfall's third DLC pack introduces three new maps including the hidden colony of Backwater, a covert robotics facility in Zone 18 and the secret fuel extraction site of Sandtrap.

Many, including Clement, suspect the transfers were a politically - motivated effort to curtail DOI programs focused on environmental protection and restrict fuel extraction and mining activities.

Today, it seems highly unlikely that CDR will ever be inexpensive enough to enable business - as - usual use of fossil fuels, but CDR could extend expectations about viability of fossil fuel extraction enough for OPEC to return to its focus on maintaining price levels, and thus increasing their wealth considerably in the process.

Opening New York's doors to this form of extreme fossil fuel extraction undercuts your pledge to make environmental protection, including initiatives that address climate change, a legislative priority.»

President Donald Trump's efforts to boost fossil fuel extraction face a courtroom hurdle of his own making.

A significant amount of finance for new fossil fuel extraction comes from the UK finance sector, and campaigners around the world are beginning to measure and compare involvement and to name and shame the worst offenders.

How would phasing out U.S. federal leases for fossil fuel extraction affect CO2 emissions and 2 °C goals?.

«The Clean Power Plan was a step toward the future: away from destructive and costly pollution, away from environmentally damaging fuel extraction and away from emissions of heat - trapping gases,» Francis told Live Science in an email.

These might include a global fossil fuel extraction levy, or aviation levies, or financial transaction taxes.

Along these lines, a smart «all of the above» approach to the nation's energy challenges might channel the royalties and fees associated with increased off - shore and inland fossil fuel extraction into programs like ARPA - e, the Energy Innovation Hubs, or more generally into basic and applied clean energy research and deployment.

Dunedin City Council (DCC) yesterday approved a new ethical investment policy that will see it divest around NZ$ 2m from fossil fuel extraction investments and block a planned NZ$ 75m from going ahead.

This paper examines the potential emissions implications of a supply - side measure under consideration in the U.S.: ceasing to issue new leases for fossil fuel extraction on federal lands and waters, and avoiding renewals of existing leases for resources that are not yet producing.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Groups with the Brown's Last Chance campaign will rally outside the National Press Building tomorrow to demand that Gov. Jerry Brown freeze new fossil fuel extraction in California and devise a plan to phase it out entirely.

Jobs and local procurement New fossil fuel extraction projects generate jobs and, in the case of foreign - owned fossil fuel companies, they also inject foreign funds into our economy via wages and local procurement of goods and services.

Or going further to full divestment from the most polluting fossil fuel extraction companies.

which allows business as usual, shifts the responsibility, and doesn't stop fossil fuel extraction like we need (while at the same time opening the door for dangerous geoengineering which is not safe or proven).

In the energy sector, improved fossil - fuel extraction methods and differing growth outlooks are forcing legacy companies to reconsider their strategies.

«While fracking has become a focal point in conversations about methane emissions, it certainly appears from this and other studies that in the US, fossil fuel extraction activities across the board likely emit higher than inventory estimates,» Eric Kort, lead author of the study and assistant professor of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences at the University of Michigan, said in a university news release.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

Activists will greet Gov. Brown with banners outside his scheduled appearance at the National Press Club to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects in California and a plan to phase out the state's dirty fuel extraction.