Sentences with phrase «land for more oil»

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Matt Ridley, for example, in his recent book, The Rational Optimist, argues that the oil sands are a much more sane solution to current energy needs than things like wind (too unreliable and too little output) and biofuels (wasteful use of land).

Like when building a national highway, etc. # 2: I think the opposite - the fact that another country now gets a «forward base» for military or refueling purposes, plus the fishing and oil / mineral exploration rights surrounding the new territory means the territorial / sovereignty rights are a lot more valuable than the land usage value itself.

But the company can take all the existing palm oil from already cleared forests and sell that for biodiesel, and then clear new land to make more palm oil and sell that for food.

New research shows that an area larger than the land area of Maryland — more than 11,500 square miles — was completely stripped of trees, grasses and shrubs to make way for more than 50,000 new oil and gas wells that were developed each year between 2000 and 2012.

«The discovery of Shell indicates a clear path toward more intensive use of already planted lands, and thus should lessen pressures to expand the land area devoted to oil palm, notably onto endangered rainforest land — a major concern for the environment and a rallying point for activists in recent years,» says Robert A. Martienssen, Ph.D., scientific co-founder of Orion Genomics, who is also a professor of plant genetics at CSHL.

The study, which involved experiments in supermarkets, shows that the higher prices consumers were willing to pay for conservation grade palm oil — akin to Fair Trade programs — more than made up for companies» costs of providing conservation land.

But Keller, a natural resource manager for the Army Corps of Engineers, has seen a more ominous effect of the boom, too: Oil companies are spilling and dumping drilling waste onto the region's land and into its waterways with increasing regularity.

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Biodiesel made from palm oil emits more than three times as much and soybean oil around twice as much, when the crops» effects on land use are considered, the research by the Ecofys consultancy for the European commission found.

A federal district judge ruled Friday that the Bureau of Land Management violated the law when it made 80 billion tons of coal available for leasing and opened up more than 8 million acres for oil and gas development in the Powder River Basin without first assessing the environmental risks or considering any alternatives.

«Heavy fuel oil can contain 3,500 times more sulphur than diesel that is used for land traffic vehicles.

Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy, abandoning Americans to die in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.

For a stable climate, fewer wars, healthy children, clear air & water, a switch to wind & solar energy, green jobs, stable energy costs and energy independence, cleaner governance, more land for food and forests, sound investments and quieter cities, it's time to divest from fossil fuels: oil, gas and coFor a stable climate, fewer wars, healthy children, clear air & water, a switch to wind & solar energy, green jobs, stable energy costs and energy independence, cleaner governance, more land for food and forests, sound investments and quieter cities, it's time to divest from fossil fuels: oil, gas and cofor food and forests, sound investments and quieter cities, it's time to divest from fossil fuels: oil, gas and coal.

The whales celebrate with champagne in front of banners that read, «We Wail No More for our Blubber,» «Oil's Well that Ends Well,» and «The Oil Wells of Our Native Land, May They Never Secede,» and «Oily Gammon.»

Obama: I have always been in favor of an «all of the above» climate policy, including a carbon price with cap and trade, crippling EPA regulatory restrictions on the coal plus oil and gas industries, fewer incentives for exploratory drilling, no further drilling on government lands, no Keystone pipeline, more taxes on the rich, etc..

As the world's highest yielding oilseed, the crop generates substantially more vegetable oil per acre than soy, canola (rapeseed), or corn, meaning that palm oil can help meet future demand for vegetable oil with less land, a point palm growers are quick to mention in any discussion over the environmental impacts of palm oil.

Energy production is the main driver of the state's economy, providing more than 80 % of state government revenue and thousands of jobs.168 Continuing pressure for oil, gas, and mineral development on land and offshore in ice - covered waters increases the demand for infrastructure, placing additional stresses on ecosystems.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

For more on the $ 7 billion per year in taxpayer money currently being given away to the oil, gas, and coal industries to extract on public lands, see our recent report: «Unequal Exchange: How Taxpayers Shoulder the Burden of Fossil Fuel Development on Federal Lands.&rlands, see our recent report: «Unequal Exchange: How Taxpayers Shoulder the Burden of Fossil Fuel Development on Federal Lands.&rLands.»

What it really does is streamline access to oil, gas, and coal under public lands and federally - controlled ocean waters for the fossil fuel industry — and condemns Americans to more spills, climate - polluting emissions, and health problems.

Bill Kristol Says Offshore Drilling Should be Brought Closer to Land The conservative thought leader Bill Kristol has made a remarkably idiotic statement in the wake of the BP oil spill — saying that «If we hadn't stopped closer - in drilling after the Santa Barbara accident 40 years ago — we've had these Congressional restrictions until 2008, for 40 years — we'd have more drilling closer in which is probably less dangerous, less treacherous than trying to drill 50 miles out from the coast,» in a discussion on Fox News.

More: Department of the Interior, Time, Wikipedia Department of the Interior Dept of Interior Cancels Bush Administration Oil Shale Leasing Plans Renewable Energy Development to be a «Top Priority» for Department of Interior Dept of Interior to Re-Review Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Controversial Oil & Natural Gas Leases on Utah Public Land Cancelled by Dept of Interior

But wait, there's more; in accordance with the President's executive order «promoting energy independence and economic growth,» they have started leasing land around National Parks (they are not allowed to in the parks) to today's Robber Barons for oil and gas development.

Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar may think that oil shale has great potential but at least he's scrapping plans put in place by the Bush Administration to lease additional lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming for more development of the carbon nightmare fuel.

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More specifically — what can we do to give it a shot in the arm?He celebrates Tim DeChristopher's simple - but - bold act of bidding on land desired by the oil & gas companies, because it caught the nation's attention the way that conventional eco activism hasn't been able to for a long time now.

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«Energy reform will enhance these [negative] impacts and contribute to worsening climate change,» said Ampugnani, «in the blind quest for more oil, which causes contamination of land, rivers, seas and the air of our cities.»

More federal lands may be opened up for oil and gas exploration and Trump has voiced his support for the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.

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