Sentences with phrase «gas companies try»

This problem is only made worse by the fact that most oil and gas companies try to avoid accountability and responsibility when these accidents occur.

Not exact matches

The Omani - based company leads many different initiatives in a variety of sectors, ranging from higher education to solar energy to core testing for oil and gas, and even trying to build a «smart city» which may enable citizens to pay utility bills automatically, amongst other things.

In response, Rosneft has teamed up with Novatek, Russia's largest independent gas company, to try to break Gazprom's gas export monopoly.

«In the future, companies may try to get around the environmental approval process by seeking approval to build a natural gas pipeline, then converting it into a pipeline for transporting heavy oil.

«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.

Schneiderman said his office has received several complaints from landowners who say gas companies are trying to extend leases during the ongoing environmental review process from the Department of Environmental Conservation.

«It should be noted that the Governor and his environmental and energy resources team are trying to do what has not been accomplished — or even attempted — in other states that have permitted hydrofracking: to regulate hydrofracking such that the gas companies bear the full cost of production of their product, and not have their product «subsidized» by the degradation of the State's water, air and land resources.

«And John Faso took money from fossil fuel companies as they tried to take your land by eminent domain for a fracked gas pipeline.»

That year, prosecutors alleged, the first bribe scheme began not long after Percoco, who had been a member of Cuomo's tiny inner circle, had dinner at a Connecticut restaurant with Peter Galbraith Kelly, an executive with an energy company that at the time was trying to build a gas - fueled power plant in Orange County.

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.

Obama last night tried to meet environmental groups halfway, promising to require all companies that drill for gas on public lands to disclose chemicals they use.

The story takes place in a rural New England town, where oil company workers Steve and Sue (Damon and McDormand) are trying to secure the leases needed to drill for natural gas.

Fifty years from now, cultural historians trying to understand the twilight years of the gas - guzzling SUV will ask themselves a series of questions: What were auto companies thinking when they created enormous cars with enormous engines that were destined for a life of traffic jams?

Arkady was said to have been trying to get some placing shares in the last fund raise but was too late getting the paperwork in as it was oversubscribed.Roman Abramovich gave an interview to i think a dubai newspaper in early jan where he stated he is actively seeking new oil and gas assets in siberia and he also mentioned the new proposed changes to the mineral extraction tax.So putting two and two together he must think the smaller companies in the region are prime for picking off some assets or take over.

It's hard to follow up something called the Ronald McHummer Sign - o - Matic with a description that does it justice, but we'll try: users were encouraged to make their own McDonald's sign with an appropriate message, and to send a pre-written letter to the company noting the environmental and public health effects of gas guzzlers like the Hummer.

Natural gas wells are not restaurant kitchens that can be «cleaned up» before the inspectors come — emissions levels from activities like well completions are determined by geology and the equipment on the site, the companies couldn't have influenced them to any significant degree if they tried.

The costs of many offshore oil and gas projects have come down sharply in recent years, as companies try to ensure their viability in a shale - inspired lower price environment.

In seeking to sue ExxonMobil and other oil and gas companies for contributing to climate change, San Francisco hired the one lawyer who has spent the last decade conspiring with activists to try and figure out a way to blame individual companies for global warming.

A tactic used by ethanol backers trying to defend the relatively defenseless Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is attempting to frame the RFS debate as one between America's oil and natural gas companies and renewable energy.

In a world turned upside down, every community and every company measures their «carbon footprint» and tries to reduce emissions of a harmless, invisible gas that is essential for photosynthesis and the growth of plants.

A few companies are explicitly trying to address the anti-poor nature of the gas and electricity market.

The Trump Administration has tried to enable the dumping of dental mercury into water systems, to allow the use of a substance harmful to child brain development, to enable the environmental release of such dangerous toxins as lead, to let gas companies leak poisonous and climate change enhancing methane plumes into the local environment, to allow trucks and automobiles that spew smog, to halt the protection of key species like bumblebees, and to roll back the Clean Power Plan, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act.

But the group trying to shut down Diablo Canyon have serious conflicts of interest, taking money from solar, natural gas and have investments in those companies that will stand to benefit from replacing Diablo Canyon.

Shale gas companies, in fact, try to illustrate how they've benefited consumers by pointing to how the price of natural gas on the New York commodities market began to take a sharply divergent path from the price of oil in 2005 if the prices are compared by heating value.

And there are other uncertainties for the gas companies even as they try hard to keep their costs down.

You don't think it's a conflict of interest for a natural gas company that stands to make significant money from the closure of Clinton and Quad funding a group that is trying to shut down Clinton and Quad?

Although many oil and gas companies have tried to reduce flaring, the amount of gas actually flared has increased by more than 50 percent between September 2011 and May 2013.

A false move can make or break a trader trying to anticipate the price of winter wheat or heating oil or natural gas, said Drew Lerner, a meteorologist for Bridge Global Weather Services, a private forecasting company in Overland, Kan..

Tim Ball said that he «made a point of not trying to find out who pays me,» and perhaps not so coincidentally says also, «to my knowledge, I have never received a nickel from the oil and gas companies.»

For weeks, administration officials have been meeting with car companies as well as green groups and representatives from California — which is awaiting word on whether it will receive a federal waiver to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles — to try to broker a deal on the issue.

A lighter take on a serious subject, one day before the official start of winter... The tune is familiar, the words clever and the cause serious: Fracking for natural gas, occurring in a number of places as fossil fuel companies try to to tap into the billions of dollars worth of natural gas trapped in shale deposits, using a technique with some environmentally dubious consequences — flammable drinking water, anyone?

A lighter take on a serious subject, one day before the official start of winter... The tune is familiar, the words clever and the cause serious: Fracking for natural gas, occurring in a number of places as fossil fuel companies try to to tap into the

Instead, Locke was trying to say U.S. companies must not be put at a trade disadvantage as the United States moves to pass legislation to rein in greenhouse gas emissions that come primarily from burning fossil fuels, the spokesman said.

«I believe the oil and gas companies are making investments and exploring innovations around climate change because they see a potential end to their existing business model if they try to maintain the status quo,» Krzus said.

Unfortunately, oil, gas and shipping companies, and their insurance providers, often try to use their extensive resources and power to get out of paying injured offshore workers and their families compensation that is owed to them.

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.

At a time in history where most everyone has access to the internet and since all that we as REALTORS own to sell is ourselves — unlike the oil and gas companies — it's beyond absurd that the Competition Bureau of Canada would waste two cents of taxpayers money trying to undermine a ligitimate and valuable Canadian Industry!

Not sure how it would work for a city - run water bill instead of electric or gas company, but definitely worth a try.