Sentences with phrase «gas companies claim»

It can be challenging for health care providers to learn what specific chemicals are used in a fracking mixture because gas companies claim «trade secrets.»

Winger says she no longer believes the gas companies claim that fracking is safe, and says it's too toxic and potentially polluting to be allowed in New York.

Governments, for their part, must establish the needed incentives, like a carbon tax, which many oil and gas companies claim to support.

Not exact matches

Ultimately, oil and gas companies need to become what they claim to be; «integrated energy companies», rather than integrated fossil fuel companies.

«Our office has received a lot of complaints that gas exploration companies have sent out letters trying rto extend their leases and claiming they have the right to do so because of DEC's review process, which has been delayed.

«Gas and electricity companies have attempted to make «completely unacceptable» claims for nearly # 1billion in tax breaks they should not be entitled to, George Osborne said.

In his showpiece speech at the party's conference on Tuesday, Ed Miliband said he would freeze gas and electricity bills for 20 months, prompting energy companies to claim blackouts would follow and investment in new plant would stall.

In another twist in the Cuomo administration's Competitive Power Ventures scandal, the pipeline company building a nearly eight - mile natural gas line to the proposed CPV plant is suing the state for what it claims is an unlawful delay of the project.

In 2013, as Skelos was pushing Cuomo to authorize natural gas fracking, the senator's son, Adam, was angling to get payments from a wastewater treatment company seeking a piece of the hydrofracking windfall, the documents claim.

While Cuomo claims he's trying to make New York business - friendly, an authoritative oil - and - gas industry source involved in Pennsylvania - based energy production told The Post the governor has repeatedly rejected offers of information on fracking from leading energy companies, which are prepared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on gas exploration in the state.

New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy made money investing in oil, gas, and other energy companies whose activities he now claims to oppose.

They were said to have fraudulently obtained the money from the bank on the false claim that their company, Danium Energy Services Ltd, had been contracted by Total Nigeria Plc to make supplies of Automotive Gas Oil.

The company denies that the objective is simply to save money, and claims that to harvest oil and gas profitably from the North Sea, it must focus on the exploitation of small reserves as the big wells run dry.

Becker serves as a consultant for Austria - based gas analysis instrument - maker Ionicon Analytik, GmbH, which makes proton transfer reaction — mass spectrometry (PTR — MS) technology that the company claims can distinguish substances having very similar molecular structures as well as correctly identify explosives, chemical warfare agents and substances that could be combined to create a bomb.

The company claims its technology can produce steam at a cost of $ 3 per million BTUs, based on U.S. National Renewable Laboratory calculations; natural gas currently costs some $ 4 per million BTUs, though that price may continue to fall as natural gas freed up by fracking floods the market.

Also at stake are a number of high profile U.S. politicians who have staked, to a large degree, their upcoming reelection by campaigning on the claimed successes of the oil and gas companies operating within their state's shale formation.

A Los Angeles company has successfully tested an electromagnetic actuator it claims will eventually make conventional auto suspensions obsolete.Aura Systems Inc. of El Segundo, Calif., has patented its actuator in the United States, Japan and several European countries.The device works with the repelling force of magnetism and would replace traditional gas or hydraulic shock absorbers.

When our shelters are empty because all of the unwanted, unloved dogs in this country have been adopted, and when the companies who manufacture gas chambers for animal shelters have gone out of business due to lack of customers, then I would say maybe we could consider limited numbers of dogs not being spayed, until then, it is the most absurd, downright stupid idea anybody who claims to love dogs, could possibly propose.

If the company's claim that one Zipcar takes 15 cars off the road is true, it could save billions of gallons of fuel (6,500 vehicles in the Zipcar fleet x 15 @ 20 gallons of gas per week = 1,950,000).

Tim Ball claimed in the programme that «I've never received a nickel from the oil and gas companies.»

Because it sells its CO2 production to Canadian oil fields through a long pipe, a North Dakotas company can claim no CO2 production for part of its gas.

On Wednesday night, the City and County of Santa Cruz, California filed two lawsuits against 29 oil, gas, and coal companies, claiming they knew about climate change and somehow hid it from the public.

The French government, according to the group, is complicit in the climate - killing activities of the big oil and gas companies present at the summit, and needs to act like the climate champion it claims to be — by investing in renewables and energy efficiency.

Twenty - one kids sued the government in 2015, claiming decades of subsidies and policies allowed oil and gas companies to push the earth's climate to the brink of catastrophe, despite government science showing the dire consequences.

In California, where the lawsuits seek billions of dollars to pay for mitigation measures, such as sea walls to protect coastal property, the oil and gas companies responded by seeking to move the cases to federal courts, where nuisance claims are less likely to succeed.

Of great concern, some natural gas companies are on the one hand claiming that natural gas is better for the climate change while they fight legislation to increase the US share of renewable energy.

Members of Congress, gas companies, news organization, drilling opponents: They've all made bold claims about hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the U.S. supply of underground natural gas.

The suit was brought by landowners in Mississippi, who claim that oil and coal companies emitted greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming that, in turn, caused a rise in sea levels, adding to Hurricane Katrina's ferocity.

And for all this, we must accept the word of economist McKitrick, whose main claim to fame in climate «science», apart from his association with McIntyre, is as co-ordinator of an execrable error - ridden review of climate science (the Independent Summary for Policy Makers), produced for a think tank (the Fraser Institute) known to receive significant funding from some of Canada's largest oil and gas companies.

Rex Tillerson claimed to support a carbon tax while CEO of ExxonMobil, but under his watch last year the oil and gas company lobbied against two pioneering carbon tax bills in Massachusetts, and it has long funded opponents of carbon pricing.

Rex Tillerson claimed to support a carbon tax while CEO of ExxonMobil, but under his watch last year the oil and gas company lobbied against two pioneering carbon tax bills in Massachusetts, and it has long funded opponents of carbon...

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It's all part of Siemens» eHighway initiative which the company claims would double energy efficiency compared running on gas, and slash emissions even more if those cables are charged from renewables.

«The guide includes several case studies from around the world where greenhouse gas accounting firms, national authorities operating in under - regulated jurisdictions, and individuals or companies claiming to offset emissions in return for investment have cut corners, falsified information or received bribes.»

Newlight's process converts air and greenhouse gas into high - performance thermoplastics that are not only biodegradable, but that are claimed by the company to be able to «out - compete oil - based plastics on price and performance.»

Significant progress in reducing emissions and limiting climate change could be achieved if companies 1) unequivocally communicate to the public, shareholders, and policymakers the climate risks resulting from continued use of their products, and therefore the need for restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the 2 °C global temperature target; 2) firmly reject contrary claims by industry trade associations and lobbying groups; and, 3) accelerate their transition to the production of low - carbon energy.

The company's comments claimed that «no science supports the relevant causal links — the connection between changes in GHG -LCB- greenhouse gas -RCB- levels and any changes in climate.»

An ICC Tribunal, chaired by Bernard Hanotiau, has dismissed a US$ 13 billion price reduction claim brought by Botaş against the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC).

He has for example acted in long - running litigation arising out of the privatisation of the railways of Kenya and Uganda, represented a European state in a dispute in relation to satellite surveillance services, a German bank in its claims arising out of a major fraud to sell non-existent tickets to the Beijing Olympics, a state oil and gas company in relation to a subsea drilling project in the Caribbean, and for a large Russian bank in a major jurisdictional dispute (VTB v. Nutritek).

A High Court judge has criticised the «extremely high» hourly rates charged by Weil Gotshal & Manges after the firm's client, BlackRock, claimed costs of almost # 1.5 m in a dispute with Middle Eastern energy company Dana Gas.

Gas & oil drilling companies usually have a team of lawyers ready to negate and minimize any and all injury claims.

The suit also claims that oil company BP, which owns the gas station, failed to maintain or manage the station in a safe manner.

As a pupil, Zac was also involved in: R (on the application of RWE Generation UK Plc) v Gas and Electricity Markets Authority [2016] 1 CMLR 17, a challenge against a decision modifying the charges imposed on users of the National Grid (as a pupil assisting Gerard Rothschild); Speed Medical Examination Services Ltd v Secretary of State for Justice [2015] EWHC 3585, a judicial review challenging reforms to the process for handling whiplash claims (as a pupil assisting Gerard Rothschild); and an application for interim relief by a company that had been redesignated under a European Union sanctions regime (as a pupil assisting Maya Lester).

Ford tried to claim that the plaintiff failed to identify a standard of care that the company violated and claimed that no other Town Car had experienced a similar gas tank explosion.

Acting for Ukraine in UNCITRAL arbitration proceedings in relation to claims of $ 180m by a London Stock Exchange - listed oil and gas company brought under the UK - Ukraine bilateral investment treaty, alleging unlawful imposition of tax measures.

Represented a major independent oil and gas company in defending claims by family members claiming an undivided mineral interest to lands in Brooks County, which interest is claimed to be derived from land titles over one century old.

Prior to joining Lewis Wagner, Meghan was an associate in the New York firm Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry's insurance coverage group, where she represented insurance company clients in insurance coverage litigation, and advised insurers on exposure and liability issues in wide array of tort and commercial contexts, including mass tort and class action litigation involving pharmaceuticals, chemical, transportation, news and entertainment, and oil and gas; environmental suits; FDA compliance claims; unfair competition and false advertising claims; intellectual property claims; construction defect; personal injury; product liability; and associated breach of contract claims.

His product liability experience is broad, but his practice has been focused on pharmaceutical products and claims against energy companies, especially claims relating to fuel gases.

Representing 2,000 Claimants in claim against chemical company for allowing fire causing escape of toxic gas from its premises.