Sentences with phrase «gas industry directly»

Between 2000 and 2014, the oil and natural gas industry directly invested approximately $ 90 billion in zero - and low - emissions technologies.

The West Virginia oil and gas industry directly employed 9,900 people in 2009.

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A recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics showed that 18 percent of businesses expect a negative impact from declining oil prices — reflecting the percentage of industries that directly benefit from oil and natural gas sales.

Oil and gas exports are among Canada's largest, and the industry extends both directly and indirectly across the country.

At times, Pruitt directly coordinated with the Oklahoma oil and gas industry to put pressure on the Obama White House in an effort to weaken clean air and water regulations or squash investigations.

Instead, B.C. agreed to take demands for financial compensation directly to the oil and gas industry.

I would suspect that those studies involved others of like mind and probably directly or indirectly funded by the gas industry.

Keeping atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases below 550 ppm, let alone going back to 350 ppm or below, will not only require a massive shift in human society — from industry to diet — but also, most likely, new technologies, such as capturing CO2 directly from the air.

Some of the findings in the report also directly contradict longstanding arguments by the drilling industry for why the fracking process is safe: that hydrologic pressure would naturally force fluids down, not up; that deep geologic layers provide a watertight barrier preventing the movement of chemicals towards the surface; and that the problems with the cement and steel barriers around gas wells aren't connected to fracking.

And the expertise and technology required for transporting, injecting and monitoring the gas can be directly derived from the oil and gas industries.

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.

Impetus to address methane leaks directly should come from an ongoing study involving the gas industry and the Environmental Defense Fund, which aims to put hard numbers on the amount of methane lost across the natural gas supply chain.

For example, farming accounts for almost 30 per cent of the globe's greenhouse gas emissions either directly (for example, rice production has the same emission levels as the global aviation industry) or indirectly through deforestation.

At Trenton Central High School, in Trenton, New Jersey, for example, some students in the school's Applied Engineering and Science Academy work directly with the local gas and electric company and with nearby Mercer County Community College to prepare for careers in the utilities industry.

In 2005, the artist opened lesser new york in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greater.

The most important line concludes that the industry groups and others seeking to fend off the gas restrictions «have not shown that the harms they allege are «certain,» rather than speculative, or that the «alleged harm [s] will directly result from the action [s] which the movant [s] seeks to enjoin.

«I am a geophysicist, all my income for my 30 years of professional life has come directly or indirectly from the oil and gas industry.»

Compare this with the coal industry, which peaked in jobs creation in the 1980's, before automation and cheap natural gas; coal now employs 160,000 people directly and indirectly (54,000 coal mining jobs).

While European politicians and financiers continue to put their support behind the fossil fuel industry, the local communities that will directly feel the negative impacts on their lives are determined to stop projects like these gas mega-pipelines from ever being built.

In August this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first - ever rule of directly limiting methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, its leading sources.

The four co-authors of the «study» all have backgrounds, directly or indirectly, in the oil and gas industry:

As we have noted, one of the Achilles heels for the US aviation industry could be the complex mixture of greenhouse gases and precursors — carbon dioxide, water vapor, and oxides of nitrogen — injected directly into the atmosphere by every jet and turboprop in the sky.

The energy efficiency sector alone employs more than two million people — double the number of people directly employed in the oil, coal, and gas industries in 2016, according to the Department of Energy.

So are you ready to back that up??? Are you ready to present evidence & make a clear - cut case that the main reason many / most of these 49 people signed this letter is because many / most of them have financial ties to & / or shills for the coal, oil & gas industries??!! If that's your real point please make your case directly & if its substantiated by sound evidence, I'll have no problem saying so.

Lead Mechanical Engineers work in the oil and gas industry and report directly to the project director.