Sentences with phrase «impact of oil»

Multiplier effects make the indirect impact of oil on Texas even greater.

His blog places an emphasis on the North Dakota economy, which provides us with great insight on the impact of the oil industry boom there.

Additionally, they can outline what consumers need to know about dealing with unpredictable storms and the impact of the oil spill.

She touches on the impact of the oil and gas industry and investment opportunities and the...

She touches on the impact of the oil and gas industry and investment opportunities and the commercial property sector in Scotland.

The study is the most comprehensive analysis of the impact of oil palm plantations in tropical forests on climate and biodiversity.

image: CBS News CBS News reporters have been turned away and threatened with arrest, prevented from reporting on the impact of oil coming ashore in Louisiana, by contractors from BP, apparently working in conjunction with the US Coast Guard.

Mulligan's group has also developed KMLs examining the impact of oil production in the Ecuadorean Amazon, sea - level rise under different climate scenarios, and the distribution of tropical cloud forests.

We are always striving to reduce the environmental impact of oil production through research, innovation, investment and technology.

Reddy cautions that the impact of oil spills depends a great deal on location and dose.

Leaving aside the impact of the oil and gas methane rule itself, a steadily escalating $ 100 / ton CO2 regulatory penalty post — 2020 will make building any new gas power plants — except as demand peak cover for renewables — a fool's game.

The impact of oil prices on the economy shows that oil prices above about $ 85 / bbl (2010) or 5.5 % of the economy pushes the US economy into recession.

Having explored the risks to western Canada's waterways created by the Alberta oil sands in White Water, Black Gold (a Planet in Focus selection in 2011), filmmaker David Lavallee now turns his attention to the wider impact of oil and gas extraction in the «new energy» age.

But it still crosses through northern Holt County, where the soil is often sandy and permeable and the water table is high — the same characteristics that make the Sandhills so vulnerable to the impact of an oil spill.

It's obvious, for instance, to take into account the drilling pad when considering the energy sprawl impact of oil and gas development.

«The CO2 numbers [in the oil sands] sound frightening when only the production and refining are taken into account... Yet once the oil is burned, a variety of sources say the total lifecycle impact of oil sands relative to the average crude used in the U.S. is much smaller, including the Council on Foreign Relations (17 percent higher emissions) and Cambridge Energy Research Associates (5 - 15 percent).»

Filmmaker David Lavallee turns his attention to the wider impact of oil and gas extraction in the «new energy» age in To the Ends of the Earth.

It's hard to take Anschutz's papers seriously given their distortions of the benefits oil and gas drilling, their dismissal of the environmental impact of oil and gas extraction, and their failure to acknowledge the dangers of climate change.

There is also uncertainty about the impact of oil and gas operations on the marine ecosystems that unique to the Arctic, and how both might be affected by climate change related impacts.

[3](Smith also sits on Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission that considers the impact of oil drilling through the practice known as «fracking.»

Installing shock absorbers to cushion from the impact of oil shocks while building a more robust clean economy for the future.

The Nature Climate change paper by Swart and Weaver about the impact of the oil / tar sands on climate made quite a splash in Canada.

But a bigger problem with the study is the failure to examine the impact of oil palm plantations, which Surjadi says are «more dangerous to biodiversity [than] logging.»

The greenhouse impact of the oil sands is also far less significant than some claims, particularly given the reality that oil consumption rates are what matters — not the amount of gigatons of carbon sitting in deposits of this sort in the ground.

The first exhibit of 56 large - scale color landscapes from Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky chronicling the impact of oil made its debut Saturday at Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art — less than a block from the White House.

This startling visual is straightforward and uses little flare to portray the severe impact of oil and gas pipeline accidents.

Another explores the impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The series documents the environmental impact of oil and gas pipelines across the United States, and reflects Chapman's personal struggle with the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline, which will cross his homeland in Bent Mountain, Va., in several places.

In many respects, North Dakota has been the top success story in the U.S. over the past couple of years, thanks to the huge impact of oil and gas development in the Bakken shale formation.

Given the country's swampy economy, the spreading impact of the oil collapse, crappy job creation, higher mortgage rates over the years to come and the fact young people are being priced out of YVR (not to mention the advancing hordes of socialists), residential real estate faces heavy headwinds.

Last week, Poloz said January's rate drop bought the bank extra time to assess the impact of oil's decline.

Using this method, researchers could compare the impact of each oil on each participant.

See how Wave Gliders not only reduce the cost of seismic surveys but also cost - effectively monitor the environmental impact of oil fields.

«They're serving as a sentinel of potential impact of oil on sea life.»

The researchers have tracked the impact of the oil on killifish since the Deepwater Horizon spill occurred in April 2010.

Michael Kunz, an archaeologist with the US Bureau of Land Management, stumbled across the camp during a routine survey to assess the possible environmental impact of oil exploration in the area.

The increase in phytoplankton could, for example, be affected by the impact of oil on bacteria that compete with phytoplankton for nutrients, the authors write.

One of the largest remaining unknowns about the impact of the oil is what it will do to corals and other life at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

«Due to global warming, oil exploration in the Arctic has become feasible along with the shipment of oil through the Northwest Passage, the water body between Canada and the Arctic that used to be frozen throughout the year, but has now become open for navigation in the summer,» noted Boufadel, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who specializes in the impact of oil spills on coastal regions and, more generally, on oil behavior in diverse environments.

So far, research on the environmental impact of oil palm cultivation has been scattered and patchy.

This, according to him, has no doubt weakened the potential impact of oil revenues on the socio - economic development of Ghana.

Impact on producers Speaking on the impact of the oil crash on the producers, Chairman, Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria, PETAN, Mr. Emeka Ene, said:

In 1974, under the impact of the oil crisis and deficits, his theories once more took the back seat in the US and UK, as their economies entered a period of stagflation.

In and around Sitka, Miller can see the impact of oil price swings first - hand as he interacts with local hunters.

The impact of the oil price drop on the exchange has been very clear, with the loonie falling below US70 cents in recent days.

Watch revenue from acquisitions NOW has been taking advantage of the downturn to strategically roll up its smaller competitors, which is enabling it to somewhat mute the impact of the oil market downturn on revenue.

The economic impact of the oil price crash is plainly seen across the counties in and around the Eagle Ford.

I suspect that the people with power to make relevant decisions are already fully aware, and those that don't know about the environmental impact of the oil sands can't do much (anything) about it.

While provinces other than Alberta are projected to benefit, modelling by the Canadian Energy Research Institute projects that 94 per cent of the GDP impact of oil sands development will occur within Alberta.

In a separate note, TD Securities» chief Canada macro strategist David Tulk said forecasters have underestimated the impact of the oil price decline on the Canadian economy, calling the shock «longer - lived and larger» than expected.