Sentences with phrase «fuel extraction at»

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.

Not exact matches

Unconventional gas development (UGD), characterized by advances in engineering, including horizontal drilling and high volume hydraulic fracturing, enables extraction of large amounts of fossil fuel from shale deposits at depths that were previously unapproachable [1].

By following carbon emissions in more than 100 countries and 57 industrial sectors — from the extraction of the fuels to the energy inputs in creating goods and services to delivery to the final consumer — he and his colleagues uncovered a more complete story of who emits the world's greenhouse gases, and at which point in the supply chain.

Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, said he's also expecting to see «a lot more litigation about fossil fuel extraction, especially on federal lands and waters,» as the Trump administration seeks to expand domestic energy production.

I mentioned this to executives at Exxon before it was Exxon Mobile many times back in the 1990s when I was working with you all that if you were an energy company rather than a fossil fuel extraction company you could be part of the future instead of part of the past.

Second, scenarios with 2 °C or more warming necessarily imply expansion of fossil fuels into sources that are harder to get at, requiring greater energy using extraction techniques that are increasingly invasive, destructive and polluting.

At ORNL, Moyer developed new understanding of the interfacial aspects of solvent extraction in recovery of uranium and conducted groundbreaking work on principles of molecular recognition that can be applied to solving DOE's pressing challenges in nuclear waste cleanup, nuclear fuel recycle, and recovery of critical materials.

Parts of foods that historically were disposed of, used for composting and considered waste or at best reserved for lower quality, utilitarian applications (like lamp oil) have suddenly become «food» through the alchemy of fossil fuel powered extraction and processing.

To learn more about how your state has been affected by fossil fuel extraction, for example, take a look at this state by state map of the impacts of fossil fuel accidents in the US from 1968 - 2011: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/04/fossilfuelmap.html. If you live in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky or Texas, your states have been hit hardest.

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.

[ix] To target the problem at its source, much more attention must be given to constraining extraction of and global trade in fossil fuels.

However, if the narrative shifts to new fossil fuel extraction, that does not help the problem at all.

«The 124 - mile Constitution pipeline, planned to run through five counties and two states, and hundreds of waterways is the sort of massive fossil fuel investment that would have locked our region into continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels and irreparably damaged precious water resources at a time when we need instead to be protecting these resources and speeding the transition to 100 percent renewable energy for all.

Costa Constantinides, NYC Council Member and Chair of the Council's Environmental Protection Committee, said, «If we are going to have any real chance at meeting our 80 by 50 goal, it's vital that we move away from fossil fuel extraction.

Later, as the Director of Organizing at the Sierra Club, Byron led organizing efforts throughout the country to challenge the extraction, export and burning of fossil fuels, protect and create access to public lands, protect endangered species, and promote clean and renewable energy development.

To come up with a compassionate fossil fuels extraction and combustion schedule for the less fortunate is naive and probably unfair to future generations and definitely toward other species, but perhaps someone will have some success at it.

In Europe, the French government passed a law aimed at freezing fossil fuel exploration and gas extraction in France and French territories.

But when some stepped back and looked at the entire fuel extraction and distribution system, they realized that byproduct methane emissions can make gas as bad as gasoline.

Finally, solar power benefits public health by not contributing to the pollution created at every step in the fossil fuel process — from the extraction wells and mines through the pipelines and at the smokestack.

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).

Hansen proposes a political policy of taxing fossil fuels at their source (extraction or import).

Amanda Starbuck, the Climate Program Director at Rainforest Action Network, put it this way: «Many big corporations that sell commodities far removed from oil extraction are nonetheless enabling the nightmarish expansion of the tar sands by refusing to purge tar sands oil from their fuel supply chains.

Keep it simple and impose the tax or the tradable allowance system at the level of fossil fuel extraction and import.

Whether carbon is taxed or subject to a cap - and - trade regime, the best place to impose the tax or allowance system is at the point of fossil fuel extraction and import.

The figure included gas that escaped from wells during extraction, losses at processing facilities and leaks from the systems used to transport and store the fuel.

Yesterday, Nicolas Hulot (French minister of «solidarity - based and ecological transition») presented the draft of a law aiming at freezing fossil fuel exploration and extraction in France and French territories.

At COP23, the International Energy Agency predicts U.S. oil production is expected to grow an an unparalleled rate in the coming years — even as the majority of scientists worldwide are saying countries need to cut down on fossil fuel extraction, not accelerate it.

By divesting their assets from fossil fuels, they are reducing the ability for big oil, coal and gas companies to develop new extraction projects, while citizens worldwide are rising to stop these projects in their communities,» said Yossi Cadan, Global Divestment Senior Campaigner at 350.org.

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.

And I'm sure he would; at least in the sense that he'd continue ignoring climate scientists, either gut or install a Bush - like EPA, and would double down on fossil fuel extraction.

Significant extraction expansion decisions are being made at precisely the time when the political and economic environment is shifting against these carbon intensive fuels.

We at Earthjustice have joined with community groups from Arctic Alaska to the mountains of Appalachia to stop the extraction of dirty and dangerous fossil fuels.