Sentences with phrase «gas baron»

A legendary Texas natural gas baron named George Mitchell, who died in 2013, was the first to tap the Barnett shale using hydraulic fracturing.

Our largest oil and gas barons, the Koch brothers — two of the richest men on earth, and among the largest leaseholders on Canada's tar sands — have promised to deploy three - quarters of a billion dollars in this year's contest.

And once you've built the pipelines and gas - fired power plants, the sunk investment makes it that much harder to switch: Suddenly you have a bunch of gas barons who will fight as hard as the coal barons Obama is now trying to subdue.

Not exact matches

«This is pure harassment by fossil fuel barons against a non-violent, peaceful citizen activist who is a leader in the fight to protect our water, air and land against degradation by these gas companies.

He advocated for propping up coal, a dirty fossil fuel that has been displaced by natural gas as the top source of energy in the U.S. Not only that, he got the idea (or at least had it reinforced) courtesy of coal baron Bob Murray.

And, except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.

But wait, there's more; in accordance with the President's executive order «promoting energy independence and economic growth,» they have started leasing land around National Parks (they are not allowed to in the parks) to today's Robber Barons for oil and gas development.

Those of us who have had to refer to Ballem's masterpiece, The oil and gas lease in Canada (now in its third edition) and his pioneering work on fiduciary duties in the 1963 Alberta Law Review, will likely not realize that he was also the author of fourteen novels (The Devil's Lighter, The Dirty Scenario, The Judas Conspiracy (reissued as Alberta Alone), The Moon Pool, Sacrifice Play, The Marigot Run, Oilpatch Empire, Death Spiral, The Barons, Manchineel,... [more]

Flying cars can be very expensive to produce, and so far many of the projects in the works seem geared more toward oil barons than gas station attendants.