Sentences with phrase «gas industry causes»

In addition, two out of three teens believe the oil and gas industry causes problems rather than solves them, the survey showed.

Teens are even more critical, with two out of three saying the oil and gas industry causes problems instead of solving them.

«Obviously, the oil industry and the gas industry cause problems but hydraulic fracturing itself has not produced a single environmental problem,» Ridley said in testimony at the House of Lords.

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Fracking is part of the problem, but the report states that most human - induced quakes are caused by the oil and gas industry's use of injection wells to dispose of wastewater - the contaminated liquid that gets pumped out of the well during oil and gas extraction.

A new report from the US Geological Survey has revealed that the oil and gas industry is causing earthquakes in the Central and Eastern United States at an alarming rate.

Economists use the term «Dutch disease» to describe the way resource booms spur an inflationary spiral that causes other industries to wither and hampers overall competitiveness, as happened to the Netherlands as a result of its natural gas boom in the 1960s.

Crude oil prices have dropped more than 50 per cent since June to around US$ 50 per barrel, causing some analysts to predict doom and gloom for Canada's oil and gas industry and economy as a whole.

Its equal - weight strategy produces a portfolio biased toward small - cap equities causing it to nearly bypass the oil & gas transportation industry.

There was no immediate report of what caused the fire at the specialty chemical complex, which provides products and services to the oil and gas industry.

Key to that will be addressing the world's dangerous appetite for meat, the livestock industry being a major cause of harmful greenhouse gases, as well as contributing to deforestation and water wastage.

The infant formula industry is a part of the problems caused by large - scale dairy farming: deforestation, environmental degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions.

The controversy caused the consultant in question to sever all ties with a gas industry lobby group.

In that time, environmental and community groups turned the 124 - mile pipeline, which would have connected gas from Pennsylvania's robust fracking industry into a network of pipelines that terminate in Schoharie County, into a powerful symbol of the fossil fuel industry that causes climate change.

«It's the grassroots effort that's caused him to slow up again,» Avella said.But he believes that, despite the rallies and protests Cuomo will eventually approve fracking.A spokesman for the gas industry called the protests «gimmicks, stunts and street theater».

Agriculture, drilling, and old pollution from waste pits left by the oil and gas industry were all considered possible causes of the contamination.

Birds worldwide also cause damage running into billions in the agrarian sector, the waste disposal sector, harbours, and the oil and gas industry.

The Edison Electric Institute, which represents electric companies in all 50 states, declined to comment directly on the EPI's findings, but said the industry had already reduced emissions of the gases blamed for causing climate change.

Though the figures vary, World Bank scientists have attributed up to 51 percent of human - caused greenhouse gas emissions to the livestock industry.

Think of the disruption they could have caused with the $ 26 million the Sierra Club took from the gas industry.

The turmoil caused by the gas crisis of the late 1970s, the transition to unleaded fuel and new government regulations did not stifle the industry.

The decline of that industry and related employment has been caused by technological changes in mining, and competition from low - priced natural gas for electricity generation, not by environmental regulations.

Cheap natural gas from Pennsylvania fracking may cause petrochemical industry build green field plants in northern Appalacia.

A front - page article and headline on April 24 reported that the Global Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emissions.

The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

«The primary cause of both trends is emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from industry, transport and other human activities.

By Peter Gleick, President Emeritus and Chief Scientist June 24, 2016 The announcement that Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) will close the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant when its current operating licenses expire in 2025 has caused what can only be described as consternation mixed with occasional conniptions among the nuclear industry and some strongly

Moreover, notice that many sceptics do not take issue with the propositions that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, much of the increase in atmospheric CO2 can be attributed to industry, that this warming will likely cause a change in the climate, and that this may well cause problems.

The announcement that Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) will close the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant when its current operating licenses expire in 2025 has caused what can only be described as consternation mixed with occasional conniptions among the nuclear industry and some strongly pro-nuclear groups.

A study surveying «leaky valves and pipes in the rapidly growing natural gas industry» observed 50 % more methane leakage than expected, but the extra atmospheric contribution still causes less global warming than coal.

CLIMATE CHANGES are being CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING... which IS being caused by centuries of HUMAN Industries DUMPING TOXIC GASES AND CHEMICALS INTO OUR AtmosphereCAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING... which IS being caused by centuries of HUMAN Industries DUMPING TOXIC GASES AND CHEMICALS INTO OUR Atmospherecaused by centuries of HUMAN Industries DUMPING TOXIC GASES AND CHEMICALS INTO OUR Atmosphere......

Schwarzenegger claims the oil and gas industry intentionally caused climate change and «knowingly killing people all over the world.»

Heartland has denied the health effects of tobacco smoke while taking millions of dollars from tobacco corporations, and currently denies the cause and effects of global climate change, while being paid by major carbon polluters like the oil and gas industry and Nucor.

Yet there is a significant proportion of Australians who believe it is not happening or it is not caused by mankind, and while our government does recognise ACC it is steadfastly supporting the fossil fuel industry, not supporting renewable energy and doing very little to reduce Australia's exceptionally high rate of greenhouse gas production.

But, expanding California's cap - and - trade program to enable polluters to buy REDD credits also harms Californians — overwhelmingly low - income communities and communities of color — those who live near the refineries, power plants, oil and gas extraction sites and other high - emission industries that are the main cause of local and global climate disruption

Jacob's work doesn't pinpoint the source of the emissions but suggests leaks from the oil and gas industry may be the cause.

Global warming is the recent rapid warming of the earth, caused by the human activities of deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) in industry, transport and the generation of electricity.

The 1980s was a period in which the oil and gas industry was battered by extremely low oil prices, causing mass layoffs and an economic tailspin.

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Although this news is cause for celebration, it appears to be deeply troubling to the gas and fossil fuel industry.

The study found that the EPA rules, combined with a recent drop in the price of natural gas, could over the next four to five years cause the utility industry to accelerate retirement of old coal - fired power plants rather than spend to upgrade the plants» emissions controls.

More nitrogen is now converted into reactive forms by industry than all by all the planet's natural processes and our industrial and agricultural processes are causing a continual build - up of long - lived greenhouse gases to levels unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years and possibly much longer.

Recent scientific studies reveal that, in addition to methane, the oil and gas industry is also responsible for emitting other hazardous air pollutants, including Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), which can form smog, and Benzene, which can cause cancer.

Many who criticise the science that claims to show that human activity is causing global warming are accused of being funded by the oil industry and free market think tanks who oppose the sort of government regulation that it seems will be necessary to implement large reductions in greenhouse gases, especially CO2

With other greenhouse gases it is responsible for the natural greenhouse effect, and the extra levels of CO 2 from burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) in industry, transport and the generation of electricity, are causing the enhanced (or accelerated) greenhouse effect which is why global warming is happening.

This approach looks suspiciously similar to asking the natural gas storage industry, after causing the largest ever U.S. methane release, to regulate itself once again.

Ironically, the food industry is at serious risk from global warming caused by these greenhouse gases, through the disruption of the predictable climactic cycles on which agriculture depends.

Much of the renewable subsidy industry justified in the name of these flawed models causes net grid emissions of CO2 to be much worse for much longer than simply replacing coal with clean low carbon gas and long term inevitable base load zero carbon nuclear on the grid, unsubsidised — but that's only a generation engineering fact from the laws of physics.

The Colorado communities contend that ExxonMobil and Suncor were aware that their products caused global warming as early as 1968, when a report commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API), the US oil and gas industry's premier trade association, warned of the threat burning fossil fuels posed to the climate.

The oil industry is increasingly looking towards the region, as oil and gas reserves become more accessible as climate change causes large areas of Arctic sea ice to melt.

On average, transport accounts for just 11 % of the greenhouse gas emissions caused by the food industry.