Sentences with phrase «gas industry just»

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Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.

There are just under 60,000 people working in the entire oil and gas extraction industry (NAICS code 211).

«Just knowing that oil and gas is a boom - and - bust industry, we are trying to not get used to it as a source of revenue because we know it won't last.»

That proposal was shot down by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, with just about the entire oil and gas industry strongly criticizing the plan.

The push by the U.S. energy industry into hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling unleashed an energy boom, making the United States the world's biggest producer of natural gas and just recently the second - largest producer of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia.

(The baseline applies to all facilities in Alberta, not just the oil and gas industry, as would be the case with federal regulation.)

In just a few short years, fracking has transformed the once - declining U.S. oil and gas industry into the world's most important.

The battle for pipelines has become a battle for more than just the people involved in the oil and gas industry in Alberta; it has also become a battle for other commodity traders such as farmers and everyday Albertans who rely on the transportation of goods.

In our Special Energy Report: An American Energy Renaissance, we highlight that just a few years ago investors were contemplating the supply constraints facing the petroleum industry, but with the disruptive technology in shale oil and gas in the U.S., we could now be looking at decades of drilling ahead.

The budget carrier pointed out the airline industry accounts for just 1.6 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while road transport accounts for 18 per cent and power generation for over 25 per cent of carbon emissions.

Just 10 percent of people living Upstate have not yet formed an opinion, so even in the very unlikely event that every one of them made their bed with the gas and oil industry, a majority would still oppose.

A study by the alliance, a nonprofit group supported by the banking industry, claims that if just 2 percent of American households switched from paper to electronic billing, more than 180,000 trees would be spared and greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by the equivalent to taking 32,572 cars off the road.

Just as those levees were built, a nascent oil and gas industry discovered plentiful reserves below the delta's marshes, swamps and ridges.

Results of the investigation have numerous uses in the field of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as well as the chemical industry, as this new method is capable of generating hydrogen from methane gas and electricity in just one step and with near - zero energy loss.

By piecing together the annual production of every major fossil fuel company since the Industrial Revolution, geographer Richard Heede has shown that nearly two - thirds of the major industrial greenhouse gas emissions have originated in just 90 companies around the world, which either emitted the carbon themselves or supplied carbon ultimately released by consumers and industry.

In the same time period, the oil and gas industry was his biggest contributor, totalling just over $ 250,000 dollars.

Given the distance between the water and the fracking fluid, there's just no way fracking could contaminate aquifers, the gas industry and its allies argue.

5» 9 210pounds work in the oil and gas industry pretty good shape just lookin to see if we can have a hook up no strings attached

With gasses, reactive chemicals, flammable products, and more just waiting to explode, it wouldn't be a wonder that the employee of the Pharmaceutical Industry feels like a bull in a china shop.

To begin, we collected some key facts and figures on the gas station and convenience store industry to get a feel for just how large and profitable it is.

When compared to the benchmark averages (sometimes referred to «Lipper Averages «-RRB-, more than 60 % of actively managed stock mutual funds fail to outperform their segment indexes (in other words, if a mutual fund targets the oil and gas industry, you'll do better just buying an index fund targeting the entire oil and gas industry rather than buying an actively managed mutual fund that targeted only the «best» companies within the oil and gas industry).

Unfortunately my knowledge of the Oil and Gas industry is rather limited and I just haven't been able to come up with a solid valuation for MIL.

To better understand what that means, The Washington Post created a series of data visuals to show just how the oil and gas industry is doing across the United States.

Hence, ClimateAudit is really just an assault on science itself by a slick PR person working for Canada's oil, gas and tar sands industry.

The energy industry dictates its orders to the governments in the west and people forget that Colorado is one of the biggest natural gas reserves in the entire world not just the United States.

Just as important, there is no oil - and gas - service industry in place in Britain to quickly begin shale gas operations here.

In my previous comment on oxyfuel for industry I didn't mention that it also allows carbon monoxide to burn faster and so be used not just in low temperature boilers but in high temperature furnaces and gas engines as well.

The oil and gas industries have been aware of the climate repercussions for decades.They have had ample time to prepare, just as the auto industry had ample time to start (and continue) building seriously energy efficient vehicles but didn't until government bailouts in 2008 were paired with higher efficiency standards.

The priests will explain that the Hockey Stick graph is really not faked [there was no Medieval Warming Period, ity was made up by the oil / gas / coal industry], the dangerous warming they predicted 25 years ago really, really happened (it just got buried in the deep oceans — at a time when the pacific is unnaturally cold) and so on..

While the EPA notes that the proposal would add just 1 cent per gallon to gas costs, oil industry officials claim it could raise prices by 2 cents per gallon on average, and as much as 9 cents per gallon in some areas, according to a story in the Washington Post.

In the same time period, the oil and gas industry was his biggest contributor, totalling just over $ 250,000 dollars.

Yet, it warns, in its «450 Scenario», where the world actually does take action and acts accordingly, and which the IEA recommends as the sensible course of action, the coal industry collapses — its shares of the global primary energy mix (which includes all forms of enegy), tumbling to just 16 per cent by 2035, by which time it is overtaken by renewables and gas.

The Department of the Interior has just delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio «for up to six months» and an industry group estimates that drilling in the Utica shale affected by the delay would produce 204,500 jobs by 2015.

Up to 2011 (adjusted for inflation), the oil and gas industry received $ 446.96 billion in cumulative energy subsidies from 1994 to 2009, whereas renewable energy sources received just $ 5.93 billion.

From 2005 to 2015 production of natural gas increased nearly 50 percent, while methane emissions from natural gas systems remained relatively flat, increasing by just 1.7 percent.17 Furthermore, methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry make up just 4 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.18

An assault led by policies promoted, through Pruitt, not just by his allies in the coal, oil, and gas industry; but by practically every harmful polluting industry.

The environmental impact is less clear because the requirement to oxygenate gas remains, so the ethanol will still get produced - it's just that the oil industry won't be getting a $ 6 billion annual undeserved tax writeoff.

So asserting that heat won't flow in figure 2 above, or will stop flowing before all of the gas reaches thermal equilibrium, is just like saying that heat won't flow between two ordinary jars of gas at different temperatures in the laboratory, and well over a hundred years of experiments, the entire refrigeration and air conditioning industry, a huge body of technology and engineering, and well understood physical theories all say otherwise.

«Today's announcement is another powerful signal of just how bleak the outlook for nuclear in the United States is, a result of a hollowed - out nuclear industry, cheap gas, falling renewable costs and inadequate policies to account for the climate change costs of carbon emissions,» said Jason Bordoff, director of the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just published a report showing that almost 9 % of all annual country budgets are spent supporting oil, natural gas and coal industries through direct subsidies, consumer rebates and avoided taxes on pollution.

The paper finds that just 1.2 percent overall methane emissions are attributable to the U.S. natural gas industry, based on the most recent EPA methane emission estimate of 1.2 percent of production, which is in line with a number of studies that find low U.S. leakage rates between 1 and 1.8 percent.

Based on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI), the 2016 Global Carbon Project's Methane Budget and the 2017 EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory, the paper finds that methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas industry account for just 1.2 percent of 2016 global methane emissions and 0.2 percent of total radiative forciGas Index (AGGI), the 2016 Global Carbon Project's Methane Budget and the 2017 EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory, the paper finds that methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas industry account for just 1.2 percent of 2016 global methane emissions and 0.2 percent of total radiative forciGas Inventory, the paper finds that methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas industry account for just 1.2 percent of 2016 global methane emissions and 0.2 percent of total radiative forcigas industry account for just 1.2 percent of 2016 global methane emissions and 0.2 percent of total radiative forcing.

The just - decided case in federal District Court was an attempt by the auto industry to thwart efforts by Vermont and other states to regulate the greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles.

In just a few years we've gone from a scenario of energy scarcity to energy abundance — thanks in large part to the innovations and investments of America's oil and natural gas industry.

Those responsible for the many state and federal protected enclaves — there are 35 National Park Service units in or near the Marcellus from Tennessee to New York — are just beginning to understand how the new natural gas industry could alter this landscape.

The oil and natural gas industry's commitment to spill prevention and an improved response if one occurs is illustrated in a just - launched website — oilspillinfo.org — that includes information, graphics, animations and other resources for industry members as well as the general public

Fossil fuel - related industries are more than just the organizations that extract the crude oil, coal, and natural gas from the ground.

In other words, just as the administration used the endangerment rule to try and spook Congress and industry into supporting cap and trade, it is now using CO2 tort litigation to try and spook them into supporting — or at least not aggressively attacking — EPA regulation of greenhouse gases via the Clean Air Act.

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Those costs, after all, are very real: we're just so used to giving the coal, oil, and gas industries a free ride that they seem not to belong in the equation.