Sentences with phrase «gas drilling plan»

Today the Obama Administration once again demonstrated climate leadership by taking the Arctic Ocean off the table in its five - year offshore oil and gas drilling plan.

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The plan would open the door for drilling in areas far beyond the U.S. epicenter of offshore drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico, giving oil and gas companies the opportunity to explore areas left out of leases for decades.

In addition to tax changes (more on that below), Trump's plan to grow the economy focuses largely on generating more jobs in the fossil fuel economy (in coal and onshore and offshore drilling for oil and gas) and as a result of new infrastructure projects.

Among the rules that BLM plans to delay until January 2019 are requirements that oil and gas producers submit plans to cut waste, measure and report gas flared from wells and dispose of gas that reaches the surface during drilling and well completion.

HARDMAN Resources NL plans to drill the Colom - bo 1 gas exploration well, in the Italian Fiume Tevere permit, in October this year.

Perth - based Victoria Petroleum NL plans to test its New Caledonia gas play in September by drilling a well, subject to a farmout of equity.

This resulted in a range of policies — from the Clean Power Plan to methane regulations for oil and gas drilling — that now face uncertainty or complete rescindment.

His company, Knightsbridge Risk Management, a private security firm in Dallas that serves the oil and gas industry, is getting calls from companies that want to plan ahead in case they shut down drilling operations in North Dakota and the Bakken shale formation.

One of those items was a five - year lease plan from the Department of Interior, for the years 2017 through 2022, which includes territories the federal government plans on auctioning off for oil and gas drilling on the outer continental shelf.

Release of the master plan comes as the federal government, even as it forges ahead on offshore wind leases, also has released plans to open nearly the entire U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling.

Gas drilling on campus (Politico) Pennsylvania's governor has a unique education plan: Gov. Tom Corbett told the Pennsylvania Association of Councils of Trustees that the state's universities could ease their financial woes by tapping into Marcellus shale deposits beneath their campuses.

With the release of its master plan for offshore wind energy, New York State is doubling down on its commitment to renewable energy at a time when the Trump administration is moving to allow coastal drilling for oil and gas.

No decisions have been made, although published reports suggest Gov. Andrew Cuomo is weighing a plan to permit gas drilling only in some counties where local officials strongly support it.

Sean Lennon says he and his mother first became concerned about the gas drilling practice when the Constitution Pipeline was planned to border their farm in the Catskills, purchased by John Lennon and Yoko Ono decades ago.

At a news conference Tuesday, Gov. Paterson was asked about gas drilling in New York as well as the plan to tax Wall Street bonuses and the charges filed against Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr. by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

The Governor's action to protect New York's waters from oil and gas exploration was prompted by the Trump administration's plan to vastly expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Governor Andrew Cuomo offered some support to a plan to permit hydrofracking in New York in communities that welcome the gas drilling process.

The hearing followed the Jan. 4 announcement made by the U.S. Department of the Interior proposing plans for expansion of natural gas and oil drilling along coastal waters.

But even though Paterson made drilling for natural gas an environmental and economic centerpiece of his energy plan, he recently issued this warning: «Drilling won't be allowed without overwhelming evidence that nothing will happen to drinking water,» he told a Syracuse radio drilling for natural gas an environmental and economic centerpiece of his energy plan, he recently issued this warning: «Drilling won't be allowed without overwhelming evidence that nothing will happen to drinking water,» he told a Syracuse radio Drilling won't be allowed without overwhelming evidence that nothing will happen to drinking water,» he told a Syracuse radio station.

Hawkins is opposed to drilling for natural gas upstate and wants the state to commit to an energy plan with more renewable energy including solar, wind and tidal power.

He said that an amendment was already planned that would extend the ban to include wastewater from vertically drilled oil and gas wells (which is being used elsewhere in the state for deicing roads), as well as those using horizontal fracking techniques.

In the meantime, Smith, with the gas drilling company lobby group, says many companies are abandoning plans to drill in New York.

The Buffalo Niagara Partnership is endorsing the New Economic Revitalization Agenda proposed by Unshackle Upstate, a plan that looks to cut taxes and calls for the legalization of a controversial gas drilling method.

There was no mention in the speech of hydrofracking as an economic development plan, the governor has said his agency will decide whether to allow the gas drilling process by late February.

Drilling for unconventional supplies of oil and natural gas has prompted the EPA to plan to regulate its air pollution

New York's emerging plan to regulate natural gas drilling in the gas - rich Marcellus Shale needs to go further to safeguard drinking water, environmentally sensitive areas and gas industry workers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has informed state officials.

The plans don't ban oil and gas drilling, but restrict them in certain areas that have been identified as critical to the sage grouse.

On Tuesday, the Obama administration dropped its plan to open the coast of Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas to oil and gas drilling.

March 31, 2010 • President Obama announced Wednesday a plan to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling.

Ultimately, the Senate did its job and passed a bipartisan revenue plan that contained a mix of borrowing and new, recurring revenues, including a tax on Marcellus Shale gas drillers.

With President Trump's plans to lift regulations and allow drilling on federal land, there are no signs that the oil and gas industry will be slowing down.

The central tension in the story surrounds a planned vote by the town that would ban or allow gas drilling.

Bjornson, a widower, is buoyed by a student who's become an important Arctic expert (and his lover), and his nature - loving daughter and an elderly uncle who is the estate caretaker take up arms against the gas - drilling plan.

Now, after years of inaction, and in the face of public frustration over rising gas prices, the only energy proposal he's really promoting is more offshore drilling — a position he recently adopted that has become the centerpiece of his plan, and one that will not make a real dent in current gas prices or meet the long - term challenge of energy independence.

The new plan is more restrictive than the 2009 environmental report on oil and gas drilling, which was written before fracking became a prime target of local environmental groups.

The Trump Administration's plans for a dramatic and reckless increase in oil and gas drilling in the Western Arctic would threaten core wildlife values and accelerate the impacts of global climate change, at a time when a transition to clean energy alternatives is urgently needed.

China's largest coal company, China Shenhua Energy Co. announced plans to form a joint venture with Energy Corp. of America to drill 25 natural gas wells in Pennsylvania.

Guest gloating by David Middleton Senate Republicans approve plan to allow drilling in Arctic refuge with tax legislation Senate Republicans passed legislation early Saturday allowing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as part of a tax reform package, moving...

The Governor's action to protect New York's waters from oil and gas exploration was prompted by the Trump administration's plan to vastly expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

There have been some high - profile setbacks recently for the expansion of oil and gas drilling into the Arctic, from the 2012 wreck of Shell's Kulluk prospecting platform to President Obama's plan to bar energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new offshore oil and gas plan from the U.S. Department of the Interior blocks two drilling leases in the Arctic, but allows a new lease in Alaska's Cook Inlet and 10 new leases in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years — a step that will worsen climate change by ensuring significant greenhouse gas pollution for the next 70 years.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP)-- New Jersey is prepared to thwart President Trump's plan for offshore oil and gas drilling by enacting a ban on such activ...

In many ways, I have seen California set ambitious climate goals by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions through stringent fuel emission standards while fighting back against the Trump Administration's plans for offshore drilling.

Moreover, the legislation puts the interests of the oil and gas lobby over millions of citizens, thousands of businesses and hundreds of coastal communities who spoke out against new offshore drilling during the federal government's extensive planning process.

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The reported plan would presumably offer natural gas drilling permits to gas extraction companies in the «southwest New York region — primarily Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Steuben and Tioga Counties — drilling would be permitted only in towns that agree to it and would be banned in Catskill Park, aquifers and nationally designated historic districts.»

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Public opposition to fracking has escalated in recent months, with concerned residents and environmental and consumer advocacy groups campaigning against the practice in New Jersey and the surrounding states, where gas companies have been ramping up plans to drill in the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation which extends up the East Coast.

But if it turns out that natural gas offers a more modest improvement over coal and oil, as the new EPA data begin to suggest, then billions of dollars of taxpayer and industry investment in new infrastructure, drilling and planning could be spent for limited gain.

Not only would it have jeopardized funding for mass transit and axed important pedestrian and bicycle programs, but Republicans were planning on paying for the increased costs by opening up vast swaths of public lands for oil and gas drilling.